PA lauds Martyrdom-death in song: “Martyr” is “handsome groom accompanied in wedding procession… to Paradise”
A song is played in the background while images of funerals are shown.
Lyrics: “We accompanied the handsome groom in a wedding procession
And the procession is going to Paradise,
Adorned with laurel, jasmine, roses, and henna,
It is the henna of a groom who delights in Martyrdom.”
[Official PA TV, Giants of Endurance, Dec. 8, 2022]
Posters are seen at a memorial event forOmar Manna, a released prisoner who was killed participating in violent confrontations against Israeli soldiers at the Deheisheh refugee camp on Dec. 5, 2022:
Text on 1st poster: “The Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] (PFLP) blesses you [all] at the wedding of its Martyr, comrade fighter Omar Yusuf Manna”
Text on 2nd poster: “In the name of All Merciful Allah: ‘And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision’ [Quran 3:169, Sahih International translation]. The Fatah Movement – Bethlehem/Deheisheh refugee camp branch eulogizes heroic Martyr Omar Yusuf Manna”
Next to Manna is a picture of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, and in the upper left is the Fatah logo that includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine.”
A Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Islam.