He loved her and was buried in the soil of her country ".. an Egyptian and Ukrainian love story
Hala Arafa - Beth:
Grief dominated the family of the young Yahya Hassan Yahya Hamed, the first Egyptian who was killed in a bombing in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, east of the capital, Kyiv.
Yahya is a 34-year-old Egyptian man who used to live in the city of Mit Ghamr in Dakahlia Governorate, and works in the tourism field in Sharm El-Sheikh. He met a Ukrainian girl, and they were united by a love story that culminated in marriage, and God gave Yahya a child, whom he called “Amir”.
Yahya was moving between Egypt and Ukraine, but before the start of the crisis he went to Mariupol, and after the outbreak of the war he repeatedly tried to return to Egypt, but his attempts were unsuccessful.
The father of the young man, Yahya Hassan, expressed his great sadness, stressing that his family, since the announcement of the death, has been living in a state of disbelief at what happened, and his tongue stuck out the phrase "He went out to die... He went out because...".
The father of the deceased Egyptian in Ukraine appealed to the Egyptian state to move in order to instill in them some reassurance for his grandson.
The brother of the deceased Egyptian youth revealed that the last visit of his brother and his family, "his wife and their son" in Egypt, was at his marriage ceremony last June, stressing that the last contact between them was confirmed by his brother that they are far from the bombing.
The brother of the deceased stated that they had received news of his brother's death from the Egyptian community, and that he had died on March 15, and that the rest of his family was fine.
The husband of Yahya Hassan Hamed's sister, the deceased young man, confirmed that he was of good character and met his Ukrainian wife in Sharm El-Sheikh. The deceased was in the city of Mariupol, which is the most difficult area to live under the siege and the continuous Russian bombing of Ukraine, in addition to it being a city almost isolated from the world, and there was no way to communicate due to the internet outage, explaining that he died on March 15 and was buried .
The husband of the deceased’s sister indicated that Yahya’s family learned of his death from the Egyptian community in Ukraine, without being able to know details about his burial place, while his wife and son were transferred to a safe place, and their psychological condition is poor.
The body of the dead Egyptian, Yahya Hassan Hamed, could not be moved outside the city where he was killed as a result of the intensification of strikes, and he was buried there with the knowledge of his wife and her relatives hours after his death.
Ahmed Al-Saeed, deputy head of the Egyptian community in Ukraine, said, "The Egyptian who was killed was killed on March 15, but the difficulty of communications and services that were completely suspended for several weeks in the city of Mariupol did not allow his wife to communicate with anyone outside the city to inform him of what happened until she was able to get out through a safe passage. And inform the Egyptian community of what happened."
He pointed out that "Hamed, his wife, son and one of his wife's relatives have been in a hideout in Mariupol for a while as a result of the war, and because of the lack of food and their need to eat, he went out trying to find food for them and while he was outside the hideout, an explosion took his life, and his wife was able after several hours to reach him and identify him between Many bodies were able to bury him in the same city.