The Houthi terrorist attacks on Riyadh turned Azza Ramzi's wedding tablecloth into a cover for her coffin

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Flight attendant Azza Ramzi did not know that the flight she had planned to be the last in her career would turn into the end of her journey in life, and that her wedding tablecloth would turn into a cover for her coffin, after she was injured in the terrorist attack that targeted King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and she died as a result of her injury.

The 28-year-old Egyptian young woman was looking forward to ending her years of work on board airlines and returning to her hometown in Beheira Governorate, where a different life awaited her from the one she lived between airports and travel trips.

According to what her family reported, Azza had told her family members that her last trip would be a prelude to submitting her resignation, in a step that seemed like the beginning of fulfilling a long-awaited wish: stability, getting closer to her family, and devoting herself to a new life carrying dreams that fate did not give her time to realize.

But what was supposed to be the end of one stage and the beginning of another turned into a tragedy that left the family facing a shock they could not have imagined, after they received news of their daughter’s injury and then her death from her wounds.

During her funeral in Beheira Governorate, the scene of placing a wedding tablecloth on the coffin emerged, in an image that aroused feelings of sadness and sympathy, because of its symbolic significance of the dreams and life that were supposed to continue.

While this picture alone is not enough to confirm the details of her emotional life or the impending marriage, for many it embodies the meaning of early loss, when the life of a young woman stops at an age when she was looking to the future, and she leaves behind a family whose only hope was for her daughter to return safely.

The tablecloth was not just a detail in the funeral ceremony, but rather an image that summarizes the harsh contradiction between the symbols of joy and the scene of farewell, and between the beginnings that the future symbolizes and the ending that death imposes that leaves no room for redress.

Azza Ramzi's father could not control his tears as he was in a state of shock recalling the details of his daughter's passing in his interview with Al Arabiya channel, as death took him by surprise with a tragedy that brought back to him the pain of loss that he experienced four years ago with the death of his wife. Between two painful losses, the father found himself facing the absence of his young daughter, whom he had hoped would return to the arms of her family to begin a new phase of her life with her, but the attacks of the Houthi terrorist militia prevented that.

Despite the cruelty of the injured person, the father expressed his gratitude for the return of Azza’s body to Egypt, so that she could be buried in her homeland, expressing his wish for her to rest next to her mother and grandmother, after he was deprived of meeting her as he had wished. His daughter, whose return he had long waited for, had returned, but in a coffin instead of returning to fill the house with presence and life.

Thus, the return that the family had been anticipating turned into a final farewell, and with it hopes of meeting and the beginning of a new life were extinguished, leaving behind a father burdened with grief, and a family trying to comprehend the departure of a young woman who did not expect her journey to end with such a tragic end.

Azza belongs to the Al-Atf area of ​​the Mahmoudiyah Center in Al-Buhaira Governorate. She worked as a flight attendant for the Saudi company Flynas, and resided in the Kingdom during her years of work. The nature of her profession constantly placed her on the road to travel, between different destinations and distances separating her from her family, while returning to Egypt and settling there remained a goal she aspired to.

According to the family's account, the decision to end her work was not just a career change, but rather a step towards arranging her life in a different way, after years she spent in the aviation field. Returning to her homeland meant for her getting closer to her family again, and opening a new page that expanded personal desires that went beyond work and travel.

Azza did not expect her journey to end like this. Instead of returning to her family to begin a new phase, the family found themselves waiting for her body to arrive, in a scene in which the bitterness of loss mixes with the cruelty of unfinished dreams.