Siwar and Selena Muhammad al-Rayyes

We belong to God and to Him we return. God has tested me with the loss of the most beautiful, precious, and beloved thing I possessed: my martyred daughters, the loves of my heart, Siwar and Selena. May God grant me the patience to bear your absence, darlings of my heart and soul, my babies. You are the most beautiful of God's creation, the most precious gift He gave me, the most tender girls in the whole world, the most beautiful children on earth. Darlings of my heart, souls of my heart, my babies, we will meet before God in Paradise. My darlings, truly my darlings. Praise be to God that you are martyrs, and for us, this is an honor. A letter from Siwar from the other world: My name is Siwar, I am three years old. This is my sister Selena, she is a year and a half old. I love her as much as my own beautiful eyes. We love colors, we love life, we love games, and we love being children. We knew nothing of you and your world except our family's tenderness and their care for us. They were everything to us, and we were everything to them. The warplanes destroyed our new house and the house we were displaced to, in an area these criminals promised us was safe... They killed our innocence. They kept our father, our beloved, precious father, from playing with us. My beloved, tender mother. Selena and I love you so much, we love you more than anything. We love the world.