Lebanon

Sayyed Nasrallah’s Promise: the Third Victory

w460It was the 14th of August 2006, early in the morning when Dr. Veronica, the Russian Doctor and wife of a Lebanese man returned to Sayyed Abbas Moussawi street in Bir al-Abed, Dahyeh, Beirut’s Southern Suburb. There supposedly stood her house that she had left before the July war. But she went back only to see that hostile “Israeli” warplanes have turned it into piles of rubble, even though it is not a military target.

The sole “Israeli” goal was to destroy the environment from which the Resistance was born; it is the environment that embraced and preserved the resistance.
Veronica stood at the street entrance, conducted a survey to perhaps find the building where her apartment was. With heavy steps, she walked forward, recalling the details of her house. It was all a memory now, she arrived to where the building stood, nothing was there for her eyes to see except a banner that said ‘Made in USA’. She could not help it, and her tears rolled down her cheeks.

Her neighbor, Om Ali arrived to the scene and saw her. “Sayyed [Nasrallah] promised us with victory, and we triumphed, Sayyed promised reconstruction and he will fulfill his promise,” Om Ali said hugging Veronica with a smile on her face.
Four years later, Veronica entered the office of the ‘Waad’ reconstruction project general manager. Usually, people go there to file complaints, to ask questions. But the Doctor entered carrying a gift, sweets box, saying “I thank Allah and Sayyed Hassan, and I thank you for returning my house, even prettier than it was!”

More than 4,800 families lived the moments Dr. Veronica had experienced. It is a story of steadfastness, resistance, victory, patience, and reconstruction, and it would not have come to light if it were not for the men who believed in Allah, and made divine victory.

As soon as the August victory arrived as the “Israeli” enemy withdrew humiliated, the Resistance started healing the wounds left by the aggression.
The Resistance bore responsibility and established ‘Waad’ reconstruction project, to rebuild Dahyeh.

It was an unprecedented move. A Resistance movement reconstructs what the enemy has destroyed.

Many wagered that the project would fail. They tried to manipulate the people, the noble people, to convince them that the Resistance was the reason behind their suffering. Only on the contrary, the people remained firm in face of destruction, they tolerated the hardships and tasted the sweetness of triumph.

The ‘Waad’ project, or as described by Hizbullah SG His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: the third victory proved to be a unique experience.
According to ‘Waad’ general manager, Hassan Jishi, Hizbullah took a swift and daring decision when it established the project.

He calls it a successful adventure; for the first time in world history a civilian organization reconstructs what the war had demolished. “It is not easy, there were many examples throughout the world when countries were in charge of rebuilding what wars or natural disasters had demolished.
Also, Rahif Fayyad, the architect who was in charge of the project, stressed Jishi’s words.

“It is a unique and rich experience. The Resistance which preserved the land and dignity is part of the people. It resists, and constructs under its name.”
The ‘Waad’ project was not cloned from other projects, it was rather exceptional on the professional, technical, administrative and financial levels.
The same neighbors now live in the same locations, but in more developed buildings on the architectural level.

The people were even given the chance to change tens of details in their apartments, the way they wanted. 10500 alterations were made to 4800 housing units.

The Dahyeh has truly become prettier than it was, embracing in its houses the most noble people. Meanwhile, the Resistance has become stronger than ever, as it narrates a thousand stories of victory and writes its 33 days of triumph and years of steadfast.

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