PA female officials laud female terrorists as role models and ideal feminists for Palestinian Women’s Day
Excerpt of an article for Palestinian Women’s Day on Oct. 26, 2021, which contains texts from several prominent Palestinian women
Headline: “Their day from their perspective – letters of pride and reproach”
“Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor Laila Ghannam: My message to the Palestinian women is that despite the pain, we have hope
The Palestinian women have fulfilled and are still fulfilling an important and central role in the national liberation movement since the outbreak of the Palestinian revolution and until this very day. They are determined to defy [the occupation] and contribute to building the society despite all the suffering caused to them as a result of the occupation and its oppressive policy, which harms everything in our land…
The women have always been the spearpoint alongside the men in defending our national rights: liberation and the right to self-determination. Therefore, the women have engraved the significance of this day with blood in defense of the Palestinian right and while standing against the occupier and all its plans of elimination, which target our people and its just cause.They have been self-sacrificing fighters, fighters, expelled, wounded, prisoners, and Martyrs.
All around the world women are dealing with many regular challenges, but in Palestine the women are dealing with difficult challenges, and foremost among them the occupation that behaves brutally, abuses everything Palestinian, and makes the lives of our people bitter…
[PA] Minister of Women’s Affairs Amal Hamad: The Palestinian women are an unprecedented case
The Palestinian women are an unprecedented case through their resolve and rootedness in the land…
The celebrations of this national day will take place this year on the land of the village of Beita, and to be precise Jabal Sbeih (i.e., mountain in the West Bank where the Jewish outpost of Evyatar is located), in order to emphasize the popular resistance and the women’s participation in defending the land with all forms and means (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror)…
[PA] Minister of Health Dr. Mai Al-Kaila: The date when the first Palestinian woman ascended to Heaven as a Martyr in 1929
Palestinian Women’s Day is an important day that the [PA] government established as taking place each year on October 26. This is the date when the first Palestinian woman ascended to Heaven as a Martyr in 1929 (in other places in the article it is claimed the date was when the first women’s conference was held in Jerusalem -Ed.). This day is an honoring of the Palestinian struggle and appreciation for [the women’s] role and participation in all stages of the struggle and building the institutions of the Palestinian state…
At this opportunity I also emphasize the role of the female Palestinian prisoners in all stages of the national struggle. They are an important phenomenon of struggle in the history of the Palestinian people and the prisoners’ movement. My message to the Palestinian women is that they should continue in the popular resistance (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror) and continue to work alongside the men until the establishment of the Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem…
President of the [Palestinian] Central Bureau of Statistics Ola Awad: A message of loyalty to the Palestinian women
…This is the day of the ladies of the land, on which we send them a message of pride and a gesture of loyalty in appreciation for the contribution that the Palestinian women have given, are giving, and will give in the various fields. This is a message of loyalty to all the women who sacrificed their lives as Martyrs in defense of the homeland, and to all the female prisoners who are confronting the prison guards in the darkness of the occupation’s prisons and hoping for freedom…
On this date on Oct. 26, 1929, the first Palestinian women’s conference was held in Jerusalem… The Palestinian women participated alongside the Palestinian Arab people (sic., men) in the political activities that have been organized since 1929, and this was following the escalation in the Al-Buraq Rebellion events (i.e., the 1929 Hebron Massacre and accompanying riots) and their spread throughout Palestine. They did what was required of them. Nine women died as Martyrs, homes were destroyed, families were left without a roof, and many were put in prisons. Here the Palestinian women’s participation in the political activity began…
Editor in Chief of the [official PA news] agency WAFA Khuloud Assaf: Restoring the Palestinian women’s honor
As part of the [PA] leadership’s plan to work to empower the Palestinian women and strengthen their position as leaders on the national level, the [PA] government made a decision determining that October 26 of each year will be Palestinian Women’s Day. This governmental decision is tantamount to restoring the honor to the Palestinian women and their historical struggles… This is an unavoidable result of the Palestinian women’s contribution in the arenas of struggle in all its forms (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror), alongside the Palestinian men…
[Palestine] Broadcasting Corporation Director-General of Training and Development Rima Al-Jamrah: An opportunity to emphasize the women’s national role
Palestinian Women’s Day is an opportunity to emphasize [the women’s] ongoing role in giving and struggle, which began long ago and continues on the path to freedom, independence, and building our independent Palestinian state – and it is no wonder that this is so, because they are the mothers, the wives, the sisters; they are the Martyrs and the prisoners; they create the men.”