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Terrorist who led murder of 37 is “heroic,” “a role model” for female students, says coordinator of Fatah’s university committee for women

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, on the role of young people in the “Palestinian revolution,” hosting Coordinator of the Palestinian universities’ Fatah committee 'Sisters of Dalal' in Ramallah Madeline Manna’ Official PA TV host: "Let’s recall the self-sacrificing operation (i.e., terror attack) carried out by heroic leader and Martyr Dalal Mughrabi who is considered an example of the Palestinian women’s struggle." Madeline Manna, Coordinator, Fatah university committee Sisters of Dalal: "In the Palestinian universities, especially in the Fatah Shabiba [Student Movement], the female student committees were named after Martyr Dalal Mughrabi - Sisters of Dalal - after the Martyr who was the commander of 11 men. We learn leadership from her, and that women always lead… Dalal Mughrabi is a role model, like other heroic female Martyrs in Palestine. We draw willpower and determination from her, and perseverance and [the will to] continue this struggle." Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.

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