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[Music] In my mind, here is Cairo, the building of this good land that carved the canal with its knowledge, its tears, and crossed it with the souls of its righteous martyrs to spread peace and security on its banks. Our armed forces succeeded in crossing the Suez Canal. [Music] Victory began with the rejection of defeat and captivity. It began with the spirit and determination of Egypt's strong men. The moment of crossing was not on October 6th. The crossing was with every dawn, through a war of attrition that lasted for years. And when the hour of war came, the wounded nation regained its pride and dignity when the clock struck two in the afternoon, according to the time of victory. [Music] On June 9th, Egypt clung to Gamal Abdel Nasser and told him, "How can you step down and leave Egypt?" The Arab people, all of them from the farthest ocean to the farthest Hebron, expressed their absolute adherence to the leadership of our heroic leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. [Music] You are the victorious and the one who grants victory. The Egyptian army, with the help of the Egyptian people, was able to rise again. It is enough for us that we overcame defeat. No human being can deny the moment of crossing. However, crossing alone is not the war. A thousand days of attrition with 500 days of fighting, seventy months of war in which we sweated blood, and they were the true prelude to the war of pride in '73. And if it weren't for the battles that took place during the war of attrition, '73 wouldn't have happened. We were trained in Group 39. [Music] It means one would rather die than leave his land. [Music] They said Abbas was captured. I was five years old then and knew that Abbas was my father. I didn't know what "captured" meant. A friend of my father's came and brought me a pellet gun, and he also brought my brother Wael a pellet gun so he could kill Israelis. After a while, my father was talking to my mother on the phone and told her that he managed to escape captivity. This was in '48. I remember that Hassanein Heikal did a report for my father on how he escaped captivity. I was nine years old when the '56 war, the Tripartite Aggression, broke out. My older brother was an officer in the navy. [Music] He participated in a heroic and magnificent battle. He was working on a patrol boat called Damietta. His patrol boat was a small destroyer, and they were in Sharm El Sheikh. They found a very large ship named "New Fon." An Englishman asked them, "What are you doing here?" They replied, "No, you are in territorial waters. What are you doing?" So he fired a warning shot. The commander of the patrol boat, the late Shaker Hussein, directed his cannon towards it and fired. He hit the bridge, the command room. The "Tread" responded with heavy fire. The commander of the Damietta patrol boat, Shaker Hussein, came up with a crazy plan. He said, "I don't have weapons to fight the Tread patrol boats. So, I'll ram it, and we'll both sink." "Me and my enemies." It was a magnificent idea. And indeed, he headed towards it and moved forward. But before the response, it was heavily fired upon with very intense fire. Before reaching it by a few meters, the Damietta was destroyed. [Music] We were at the Institute of Theatrical Arts, and I was in my first year when the '67 war happened. Thank you, everyone. We went to the administration, and they assigned us. Nour El Sherif, may God have mercy on him, was assigned. Hassan Seif El Din, may God have mercy on him, was in Port Said. Samir Nada and I were in El Ferdan. We didn't meet the soldiers after the war. After that, I remained charged. I finished my studies and joined the army. I found myself going with the Sixth Commando Company, Naval, to Yemen. In Yemen, they assigned me to be the commander of the naval forces, the governor of Hodeidah, and the director of Yemeni armament. I took charge, but there were foreigners with them, one of them an Israeli advisor and the other an American. I learned from the interrogation that they were monitoring the movements of the Egyptian army in Yemen. After I finished the mission and returned, the base commander told me, "Osama, we will be attacked by the Americans and Israelis." [Music] The important thing is that we entered training in the Khatatba region. It was very intense training. They brought the best officers in the Egyptian army for this batch because they graduated in '48 and fought in the '48 war, and they came out like us, battered from '67, and saw the Israelis. [Music] I joined the army in October '70. I left the army in July '75. You enter not knowing when you will leave, not knowing when your life will begin. We had dreams inside us. [Music] We didn't fight. They said, "Protect yourselves, of course, without weapons and the like." About a week in Anshas, then to Port Said. We quickly went to Port Said. The Jews gathered at Ras El Eish and camped. They didn't enter Port Fuad because, of course, Battalion 40 was there, facing the Jews directly. We were on the right, and he was in another battalion. They wanted to advance and enter Port Fuad. The platoon that was standing there, the commando platoon, taught them a lesson. For three days, this was the first battle between the Egyptian soldier and the Israeli. [Music] In the '67 war, the Egyptian air force was able to launch strikes against the Israeli forces present west of the Suez Canal, and they retreated 50 kilometers after Moshe Dayan announced that it would take Egypt 50 to 100 years to rise again. The war of attrition began, and among its operations were Crocodile Island, the Bitter Lake, El Tor, El Qantarah, and the pilots' bus. In the heart of Sinai, there was Taba. We struck in the heart of Taba and I participated in operations with Major Hisham. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] On June 17, '67, they told me, "Osama, you will be in a special forces group to carry out operations against Israel." We were 39 fighters at that time, and that's why it was called "39 Fighters." The first operation they launched was the first prisoner to enter Egypt, Group 39. We entered Egypt for the first time from the area of Ismailia, called the Unknown Soldier. The Israeli was patrolling the canal. We used to cross first and place mines for them. So, in the naval group, they found two vehicles. They said, "Let's deal with them." There was something called the quarantine, where pilgrims used to stay for 15 days to be treated if they had any diseases from Saudi Arabia or something, and then they would enter Egypt. When they said they would refuel their naval vessels, they would bring ammunition and food. They used it as a trap. We were ordered to strike their boats. So, we went out, reached the Red Sea, and were crossing from the Eyes of Moses because they knew this area didn't have launch engines. So, we went and mined it. They brought out the reserve tanks and placed them on the poles with the mines. We waited for the explosion. We waited for the explosion to kill them. Then they told us, "We should be on the shore now. Return quickly." Fortunately, by luck and good fortune, I was driving the launch. I was at the helm, and we were about four or five people. When we finished the operation, the explosion lit up the entire area. When we returned at night, [Music] artillery was firing at us, and flares were lighting up to our right and left. So, Osama, Fadi, and this one. I was surprised by the first shot. The first shot wasn't aimed at us. The first shot was supposed to pass in front of us, but it hit the water and ricocheted. Instead of going straight ahead, it deflected and came towards us. It hit Amir's head and Essam El Daly's head, and then there was an explosion. Then, this wasn't in the air. Then I saw another shell coming towards us, so I swerved left. Then a shell came from the left, and I swerved right. Shells were being fired from a tank, continuously firing at us. But thank God, I avoided nine shots. He, because he has experience, a man with experience, knew how to get us out of the front. And indeed, we were the first group to enter the second Egyptian group, and my group, with two commandos. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Inside Israel, it had a very significant psychological importance. Israel at that time was striking deep into Egypt. It struck a school in Baher El Baqar and factories in Abu Zaabal. The importance of this operation was that leader Gamal Abdel Nasser wanted to respond to this statement of "having the heroic hand." [Music] The film "The Road to Eilat" indeed had an impact on people, as everyone saw it. Even today, 25 years after the film, people who are 20 years old follow it. We participated in one operation, but they were three operations far from each other. The first operation was in November '69, the second in February '70, and the third in May '70. The film shows us sinking two ships, but in reality, we sank two ships in the first operation, Dalia and Hydroma. In the second operation, we sank two more ships, Beachcraft and Batyam. In the third operation, the military pier was destroyed. We did not lose any personnel in these operations at all, except for one person who was in the first operation. He was my buddy, who was tied to my hand. [Music] And we were exactly under the ship. My buddy and I, the late Fawzi El Barrouqi, went to Dalia. We reached the ship. Each of us had a mine. I placed my mine in the middle of the ship, thinking it would be above the ammunition depot, and we decided to place his mine in the stern, below, with the equipment, to ensure the ship sank. The film shows them shooting at us, and he died. That didn't happen. If they had shot at us, they would have discovered us, and the operation would have failed. They didn't discover us at all, as their ships were burning. What happened was that even in martyrdom, he was not fighting the enemy. It was one of the diving accidents that usually happen. They call it oxygen poisoning. [Music] This accident is fatal. He dies within five minutes, but its treatment is very simple. But he had two options: either come to the surface and save his life, or continue and die. But if he came to the surface, he knew we were under the ship, they would see us, and they would capture us, and perhaps they would capture the frogmen in the port and capture the other groups, and the operation would be ruined and fail. So, to not let the operation fail, he went, knowing he would die, and continued until he reached the ship with his mine. Then he signaled me and said, "Nazeer, with his wonderful heroism, and he was also close to my heart. It was difficult for me to leave him in the port to the enemy, especially since the enemy is good at media and propaganda. They would photograph him and say, "Egyptian frogmen, we killed one of them, and this is a picture of one of them," contrary to the truth. I wished he would be buried in Egypt, in our country. Although the distance was long, about 16 kilometers to Aqaba, I said, "As we came together, we will return together." This is what appeared in the film. I was talking to him when the ships exploded. We were halfway back. I told him, "Look, see what you did." [Music] I won't leave you, I won't leave you. [Music] I will not forget that God Almighty saddened me with the longest air battle from '67 onwards until '73. On February 15, '73, the battle of 13 minutes. We received orders that there were six aircraft, and you are going for reconnaissance from the Fayed area. Photograph the second army. I took off with the martyr Hassan Lotfi, who informed me, "There are six Phantom aircraft ahead of you." So, I took off with two MiG-21 aircraft. The aircraft are simple in technology and armament. I have four missiles and... [Music] [Music] By life, not death, we will not die, because I asked God Almighty, saying, "Lord, I don't want to die. I want to wait until the end so I can destroy my enemy and whoever comes to violate my land and my country. If it comes to the point where I merge with my aircraft, and we become one, I will hit the aircraft in front of me and shoot it down." And that's what happened with the martyr pilot Hassan Lotfi, who informed me at the end, after the missiles were expended and his fuel ran out, and our aircraft's engines stopped. The orders were for me to eject from the aircraft and leave it. But I swore before Gamal Abdel Nasser that I would not abandon my weapon. Thank God, after I managed to shoot down the Israeli squadron leader's aircraft in the first 30 seconds, five aircraft remained engaged with us for 13 minutes. We fought with unparalleled ferocity. They will not kill us. I managed to land the MiG-21 aircraft and managed to land it in a street near Ain Sokhna, on a width of 8 meters and a length not exceeding 200 meters. It is currently at the October War Panorama. The aircraft's designation is Najwa One, Bashir, number 8040. Let's salute it. During the war of attrition, we carried out 99 combat operations, the most important of which was the Crocodile Island operation. We inflicted heavy losses on the Israeli position at Crocodile Island, a severe blow to the Israelis. The assistance was controlling Ismailia, and they were shelling the Medalists. Anything that happened to Egypt during that period, Field Marshal Abdel Moneim Riad came to visit Ismailia, may God have mercy on him. So, of course, they shelled him, and I was in the Tiger area. [Music] And he is the martyr, the heroic Lieutenant General Abdel Moneim Riad, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, who fell on the battlefield as a martyr and hero. So, of course, after forty days of his death, we had a mission to take revenge. So, we went and crossed, and there were five Jewish positions in this location. So, of course, we studied the location. We crossed the canal. We used to cross from the Yacht Club, asking them to cover the entire area. Artillery would fire from Port Said to Suez, shelling the entire front to reveal anything. Smoke over them, they suffocate, they come out. We gassed them. On February 5, 1970, we attacked for the second time and sank Batyam. Later, the Israeli Minister of War at that time, Moshe Dayan, was interrogated in the church, and he said, meaning, "The Egyptian frogmen are coming and going. No one can stop them, or what?" So, he vowed that no more frogmen would enter. Specifically, he said, "No Egyptian cockroach will enter Eilat again." Two weeks later, we entered Eilat for the third time. They did everything possible to prevent frogmen from entering. They put markings, made the port like a sieve, but it was no problem. With large iron shears, divided like a new sieve, we entered and made the boats not stay in the port. Our plan was to go and find no boats, so we wouldn't do anything. But they also placed large mines for us. The mines we used to use at first weighed 50 kilograms, and the explosive material in them was TNT. Large mines like these, 150 kilograms, and the explosive material in them was something called "demolition." We went in two groups, I and Omar Ezz El Din. Each of us had a 150-kilogram mine, and 150 kilograms, a total of 300 kilograms of explosives. We would place them on the seabed. There were no boats. We set the timer for 12 hours. Pull the pin at 12 AM. It would explode the next day at 12 PM, when the boats would have come and stopped over them. So, after we entered the port a little, the charges, and he threw a charge that was very close to us. The devices were dislodged by this charge. It did something to the mines. First, it ruined the device that made it zero buoyancy, because the mines float on the surface of the water. My heroic companion Omar Ezz El Din told me, "Look, we will do this operation, even if I have to hug this mine until tomorrow morning and it explodes with me, but the operation will be completed." I will do that. Each of us took off his belt and wrapped it around the mine. The mine was submerged, and we went and placed the mines next to the military pier. The second thing that happened was that the timer malfunctioned. Instead of exploding at 12, the first one exploded at 7 AM. The boats hadn't arrived yet, but the force of the explosion was immense. It destroyed the military pier. As a routine measure, underwater explosions occurred, and there were losses. Frogman groups were sent down. The Israeli frogmen went down to survey. Their greatest luck was that it exploded at 9 AM while they were in the water, and 14 of them died. [Music] [Applause] [Music] When I entered, it became the Squirrel War with its full force after the martyrdom of Abdel Moneim Riad. I was in Al-Qantara Al-Gharbia, and there were daily battles in Al-Qantara Al-Gharbia. I was the commander of artillery. I would fire at them, they would fire at me, I would fire at them, they would fire at me, until the day they shelled Baher El Baqar. The transport trucks of the battalion were there. We didn't put them in Al-Qantara to be shelled. We put them there. Two days later, they told me, "Osama, these people are unloading ammunition at Point 3 in Al-Qantara. Fire at them." I said, "We don't have phosphorus. We have smoke, illumination, and intense." May God Almighty inspire me, not intelligence. I said, "Let's use this illumination bomb. It's not fired in the plains, it just explodes above and illuminates." We'll fire it in the plains. How much did an illumination bomb cost in '68? And I was receiving a salary of 28 pounds. So, if it didn't work, 28 pounds would be deducted. 68 pounds, three months, and I would get a delay in promotion or punishment. I got the bomb and changed the fuse that explodes above, put it to explode below, and I called it. I put it in the cannon. The soldiers, sir, sir. I told him, "Everything is far away." I fired the bomb a little, and the reconnaissance soldiers who were sitting behind us in a building said, "Sir, Allahu Akbar! Fire again!" It lit up, so we fired the ammunition until it was dark. We fired at them until nightfall. In this operation, we inflicted about 35 dead and wounded on them. When a ceasefire was called, the airport was supposed to be visited. We made them cut their visit short. We went that day and shelled the airport while it was on its way to visit. We taught them a lesson. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Our armed forces succeeded in crossing the Suez Canal along the entire front and seized the eastern bank of the canal. I was in something called the 26th Infantry Battalion, part of the Eighth Division, Seventh Brigade. Our mission was to cross the Suez Canal and seize the fortified points on the other bank, inside Sinai. October 5th began with a strong breeze, and everyone said, "The Minister of Defense will pass." Then leaves were granted. We didn't understand this was war until October 6th. Suddenly, it was real. I was sleeping. A soldier, yes, I am here. "Hello, sir." "How are you, Osama?" "Hello." He said, "What do the reports say?" He said, "What do the reports say?" "Where?" He said, "Meaning, war." He said, "Send the dawn soldiers." So that the boats would enter with them, covered with head coverings, and hidden. And with them came a manifesto from Saad El Mamoun, a wonderful manifesto that salutes us, appreciates us, and tells us that the hour has come to bear a painful burden, a defeat we did not fight and were defeated in, so we want to be victorious and return our country. Joy and victory are upon you. You open the General Program Radio at 8 AM and set your watch to it. Our boats were there. People started hanging their laundry, sitting in their underwear, spreading their laundry on blankets, and we were preparing behind them, preparing for the crossing, doing all these things. On the night of October 5th, the brigade commander entered and gathered the pilots. He told them, "The day you have been waiting for has come, young men. Fight tomorrow, God willing. And what I am about to say is not up for discussion." He said, "The first formation, the Mansouri formation, the spearhead that will cross the front, the first formation." It was a moment of pride that a director must see. I took the best moment of my life, the moment I had been waiting for my whole life. I prepared my pilots, and we took off at exactly 2 AM. As we were taking off, the last person you see is the engineer and the technician who is closing the aircraft for you, as if he is closing your grave. There is no god but Allah. Say, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. [Music] We managed at 2:05 AM to begin the opening, which consisted of 225 fighter and attack aircraft, helicopters, and bombers. I will never forget as we were passing, the Egyptian soldiers, the honorable Egyptian soldier, threw himself into the water. He saw the planes passing and didn't wait for us to go and strike and return before we crossed. There were artillery preparations. Due to the continuous artillery preparations, they turned into a continuous roar. Rats emerged from the ground and started running in panic. We will cross. The first platoon will cross, then the rest of the unit with these weapons will cross after them. We will cross a quarter of an hour before the forces. No one will precede us so that we can take the other side, secure it, and protect the forces that will cross. So, we are going on a specific mission, and that mission is that you just stay for two hours. Stay for two hours, and if you finish half of them, that's great. And for the division to cross, we are before the edge. There was a period when the army was in a state of calm. They said the conscripts who were in the army would be discharged. They would be replaced by other conscripts. There was no war, no anything. Of course, this was the first day of Ramadan, the first day I would eat after nine years. Then the phone rings, "Come, there's training for two days." We haven't even been out for a month yet. So that you don't forget what's in the group. All of us are flying. On October 6th, for the sake of Allah. The training. We were in the air. No one told us anything. We were going to war or anything. While we were in the air, we received orders. "Where are you going?" They said, "To strike the oil." That was our mission. We were in aviation. We would descend and strike the oil so that the Israelis wouldn't use it. And that was our mission. We were going to support the Egyptian army, and our naval forces, the heroes, would prevent any naval sector from dealing with each other. The war began, and we were very far from the battlefield. And special forces are supposed to be at the forefront of battles. From October 6th to October 8th, we heard war news on the radio, and that was very sad for us. Ras Gharib was a small village. Will they remember the good people? They wanted to express their joy for the armed forces, but there were no armed forces available except us, and it was Ramadan. So, many people from Ras Gharib came, each bringing us kunafa, qatayef, and pigeons, and other things, even though we had food. Look, we had a pile of food. We crossed at the military station of Geneva. We had two strong points in front of us called the Enchanted Point and the other strong point, the powerful point, was held by... [Music] The second company in Battalion 1, named Sayed El Borai. We wanted to storm the powerful or enchanted point. So, Sayed El Borai requested assistance. "Fire, fire how? You are holding the hill, and the mortars are firing. Everyone descends into dugouts, and the artillery begins to fire with the mortars." We stormed the powerful point and took everything in it. We captured prisoners. What is this? What is this? This is great! [Music] From the high dirt on the other side, the flag with me, and I was chanting as I crossed the canal, saying, "By God, it's been a while, oh weapon!" And Allah Akbar! By God, the scene, I don't want to tell you what happened to the descendants of the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids, who used to carry rocks. These are soldiers carrying a three-part cannon, carried by three. And they were walking on the ground, carrying one piece. I have a squad leader named Mohamed Fathy. He went to the doctor to be treated for a stomach ache. I knew that. How could this be? I've been waiting for this day since I went mad. Come, he said, with his hand. [Music] Look, sir, sugar, sugar. By God, Mohamed Fathy stood up and looked up. "Lord, my wish has been granted. If you take me now, I will be happy. I was praying all day to cross and be safe." You gave it to me. [Music] The security surgeon returned me to the sun. After the Israeli response, they fired intense artillery at us. Our artillery fired heavily at them, and my happiness increased as I saw the missiles hunting Israeli vehicles. I was in the observation post, in my trench. I heard a small microphone. "Egyptian commander, surrender." I saw Israeli armored vehicles coming towards me, and a group of people got out of the vehicles. Each vehicle took ten people, and they had a microphone and spoke to me. "Surrender." They are coming for me. I said, "I am a first lieutenant, just yesterday. Today, I am in the midst of my soldiers." I said, "I have the soldiers with me, nine or ten, all of them from signals. Prepare your trench and prepare your weapon." And we started firing at them. And I made contact with my platoons for rescue, because there was an armored vehicle. One of the men with us, our hero, an RPG soldier, went out and blew up the vehicle, splitting it in half. His position split the armored vehicle in half with those inside. And we crossed, and among us was Mr. Abdel Razzaq, may God have mercy on him. The first one who came out said a beautiful word: "Can someone take my place, gentlemen?" I saw a medium machine gun coming towards me from one of the platoons. The scene is unforgettable. I don't think anyone can do it or capture it. Three soldiers from the crew ran towards me, as the book taught them. The machine gun of the Israeli vehicle was firing at them. A half-inch machine gun, destructive. Its bullet enters one side and comes out the other. It's phosphorus and incendiary. It was firing at them. One fell, and the other, the heel, was hit and fell. And the third who remained... [Music] The ammunition box. And finally, behind him, carrying the cannon, his ammunition box. The machine gun was firing at him. What did he do? He threw the ammunition box and did this. You know when someone is putting out a cigarette and gets it? And the bullet comes out of his back. "Go, soldier!" He aimed the cannon at him and at the distance. We fired. Not one shot out of ten. He killed eight. This is a very bright moment in the war that no one can forget. The moment of crossing. But crossing alone is not the war. The war is something else. A fierce battle. Smoke everywhere. [Music] I told them, "Go, the tank's bomb is in the center." The explosions were like someone holding a hammer or a nail, hitting it, and blood was running hot from my head onto my neck. And a soldier next to me, whom I didn't know, was pushing me. "Sir, the tank is coming towards us. It will run us over, sir, sir, sir." The tank's treads ran over all of us, except for me, because I was in the trench. It stepped on my back and broke three of my vertebrae. I was dead. All I could do was say the testimony. I started saying the testimony. And today, October 6th, my birthday, I completed 29 years, and I went into a coma. Something terrible was burning in my back. [Music] [Music] [Music] After that, the siege of Hama occurred. They tried to starve us. When they deprived us of water, we used to get a water canteen a day. That canteen would meet all your needs. So, what did we do? As soldiers, we removed the gasoline tanks from the damaged cars and placed the car tires underneath them and collected water. We overcame the water crisis and collected water and did not thirst. It was required to deliver supplies to the Third Army, specifically plasma, blood, and anti-tank missiles. And indeed, I was assigned this operation. The Israelis had seized the port of Adabiya. And I was there, going there, when I was surprised by a car coming from the direction of Adabiya, coming from the Israelis. So, we set up an ambush for it. As soon as the car approached, I looked and saw my brother, Wael Abbas Hafez, in it. I greeted him, and we sat in a location called Marsa El Sadat. That same night, we headed north to Salta El Qartina and emptied the entire launch with the materials we had brought, and returned safely. Later, we learned that we were the only ones who reached the Third Army and sent them these supplies. My brother, Ikram Labib, was a reserve officer and was with me. He visited me before the war, and he kept visiting me until he crossed to the other side. The siege came, and I heard his name among the prisoners on the radio. He returned from captivity before the prisoner exchange. He met me at the Kilo 101 negotiations. He returned before me and came to pick me up from the battalion. I was afraid to go on leave to say, "What will I tell my mother? Where is your brother?" I didn't know. I didn't want to go on leave. So, when he came to pick me up, I went. My mother, may God have mercy on her, a small family. In terms of joy. These are small children. In one of the interviews in Washington, we entered an American senator's office, a Jew. [Music] He took me in front of an Israeli man, who was supposed to be the commander of the Israeli navy. I found him asking me two questions. He said, "Do you know someone named Abbas Hafez?" I said, "Abbas Hafez is my father. How do you know him?" He said, "He was a prisoner of war with us, and then he disappeared." She said, "He didn't disappear. He was with you for 27 days and managed to escape from your prison." [Music] And by the way, the key to his cell is in his pocket. He said, "I want to know how you entered the port of Eilat." You brought up the subject, and I have to talk. You know how many times we entered your territory and destroyed your ships and how many boats we destroyed, and you couldn't catch one of us. Doesn't that make you realize that these Egyptians are a red line for you? I wrote about this. I wrote the film "Battalion 26." I wrote this as soon as I left the army. The moment of crossing determined how the war went and what happened. Battalion 26. It is our duty to make a film like the soldiers, the battle of '67 and '73, from a real experience. And this has had three print runs. Then the General Egyptian Book Organization printed it at its expense and made the fourth print run, which I have. And of course, it was sold out by the General Egyptian Book Organization. A good book like this. We hear about the Nile talking about displacement, the governorates of displacement, and what happened to the displaced families. We talk about them. A beautiful story. And the prisoner, the same story, about the '67 battle and an Israeli agent who managed to capture an Egyptian officer with the rank of major in the reconnaissance corps. Then, in the end, he managed to convince her to deal with him because she was originally Egyptian. Here is the novel "Nour Oyouni," a novel, the truth is very strange, and the stories I am talking about in these novels are real. The novel shows Egyptian and Israeli intelligence and the battles between them, the resistance to espionage, and the work of the Israeli intelligence agency in Egypt. If a naval film about heroism were to be made, choose the battle of Sharm El Sheikh between the Damietta patrol boat and the Tread. Extreme courage, even the exchange of words between them. He says to him, "Who are you?" We say to him, "Who are you?" He started it. He has one cannon. I have my boat. I will ram my boat into the Tread. It's me and my enemies. I will sink it, and it will sink too." This is the courage that President Nasser praised after we carried out the Crocodile operation, which was a tribute to Field Marshal Abdel Moneim Riad when he was in Ismailia. We carried out the operation, and it was successful, and none of us were harmed. During that period, we killed about 44 Israeli soldiers. After that, [Music] After the death of President Nasser, the president took over the republic. And in the operations we carried out, we had struck pilots in a bus that used to go from El Tor to Israel. So, the republic awarded me the first-class medal. And this is what I wear with pride, because it is from the commander, Field Marshal Galal El Haridi, the commander of the commandos, who founded the commandos in Egypt. I remember that I received the shield of the armed forces from him, and I am proud of it. I received it from the people of Ismailia, who represent sacrifice and devotion to the hero. [Music] I apologize for all these medals and decorations that I received from the state because I offered my soul to the homeland. I was willing to give my life for the state, for what I did, I did for the sake of the homeland and for the elevation of the homeland. [Music] My homeland, my homeland, to you is my love and my heart. Egypt. [Music]