PA daily calls teenage female stabber “a Martyr” and quotes her father saying “I am proud”
Headline: “This is what she wrote before her death as a Martyr. Donia Al-Watan in the home of Martyr Ashraqat: She directed her father to donate her organs, and not to bargain over her body”
“The girl Ashraqat Taha Qatanani, 16, a Martyr as she wished, died as a Martyr on Sunday morning [Nov. 22, 2015], at the Hawara junction next to Nablus, after Gershon Mesika, former head of the regional council of the West Bank settlements, rammed his car into her, and afterward settlers and the occupation army’s soldiers shot her, after her presence at the spot aroused their suspicion… Asharaqat’s father spoke with tears choking him about the last conversation that took place between him and Ashraqat, the night before she died as a Martyr: ‘She said to me: “I instruct you to donate my organs if I die as a Martyr. If they argue with you about my body, do not agree to any bargaining, and do not give in to any blackmail in order to receive it.”’ He was about to cry again, and continued: ‘It appears that she prepared herself for any possibility, and indeed the Israeli intelligence service summoned me to the center of Hawara and asked me not to incite, as I am the Imam of a mosque, and to work to calm the spirits. ‘We do not want revenge’ – that is what they asked of me in one word. In short, they are even afraid of our pain and silence. I do not have the shadow of a doubt that I cannot prevent anyone from resisting or dying as a Martyr, as I was not able to prevent my daughter from carrying out her religious and moral obligation to go out against this occupier, which leaves us no air to breathe. I am proud of my daughter Ashraqat.’ […] Martyr Ashraqat’s brother said: ‘My sister carefully followed the political news, and cried with all her heart, and strong pain that hurt our hearts, over each male and female Martyr,’ and he told his father not to be sad or sorry about the death of his sister, as she chose her way and fulfilled her dream to be a Martyr.”
Ashraqat Taha Ahmad Qatanani - 18-year-old female Palestinian terrorist who attempted to stab an Israeli girl, running after her with a drawn knife, on Nov. 22, 2015, at a junction near Nablus. Former head of the Shomron regional council Gershon Mesika foiled her attempt by running his car into her when he saw her attempted attack. Israeli soldiers then shot Qatanani. The PA reported that she died of her injuries, but this has not been officially confirmed.
“The girl Ashraqat Taha Qatanani, 16, a Martyr as she wished, died as a Martyr on Sunday morning [Nov. 22, 2015], at the Hawara junction next to Nablus, after Gershon Mesika, former head of the regional council of the West Bank settlements, rammed his car into her, and afterward settlers and the occupation army’s soldiers shot her, after her presence at the spot aroused their suspicion… Asharaqat’s father spoke with tears choking him about the last conversation that took place between him and Ashraqat, the night before she died as a Martyr: ‘She said to me: “I instruct you to donate my organs if I die as a Martyr. If they argue with you about my body, do not agree to any bargaining, and do not give in to any blackmail in order to receive it.”’ He was about to cry again, and continued: ‘It appears that she prepared herself for any possibility, and indeed the Israeli intelligence service summoned me to the center of Hawara and asked me not to incite, as I am the Imam of a mosque, and to work to calm the spirits. ‘We do not want revenge’ – that is what they asked of me in one word. In short, they are even afraid of our pain and silence. I do not have the shadow of a doubt that I cannot prevent anyone from resisting or dying as a Martyr, as I was not able to prevent my daughter from carrying out her religious and moral obligation to go out against this occupier, which leaves us no air to breathe. I am proud of my daughter Ashraqat.’ […] Martyr Ashraqat’s brother said: ‘My sister carefully followed the political news, and cried with all her heart, and strong pain that hurt our hearts, over each male and female Martyr,’ and he told his father not to be sad or sorry about the death of his sister, as she chose her way and fulfilled her dream to be a Martyr.”
Ashraqat Taha Ahmad Qatanani - 18-year-old female Palestinian terrorist who attempted to stab an Israeli girl, running after her with a drawn knife, on Nov. 22, 2015, at a junction near Nablus. Former head of the Shomron regional council Gershon Mesika foiled her attempt by running his car into her when he saw her attempted attack. Israeli soldiers then shot Qatanani. The PA reported that she died of her injuries, but this has not been officially confirmed.