“I was waiting for you to reach me, Dad” … Hussein al-Tayyar mourns his father, who died on the journey to Europe as a migrant

Yasour: The young man “Hussein al-Tayyar,” who lost his father, Sami al-Tayyar, from Nahr al-Bared camp in Lebanon while he was attempting to migrate to Europe, wrote: “I was waiting for you to reach me, Dad, so I could hold you to my chest and we could continue together the life we dreamed of… I was waiting for the moment I would see you, and suddenly the news came that you had died, and my heart broke before I…”
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