Fatah student movement praises Dalal Mughrabi
Text and pictures posted on the official Fatah Facebook page
Posted text: “The [Fatah] Shabiba student movement distributes to students of the universities and institutions [of higher education] in the northern districts (i.e., West Bank) a free gift: a notebook. The bet on the future, the promise of the Martyrs (Shahids)”
The pictures show different images of the Fatah Shabiba student movement notebook, which contains material about Fatah. On the cover appears the logo of the Shabiba student movement, and under it the words: “Volunteering, giving, sacrifice, devotion.”
The following are pictures of some pages of the notebook:
Text on page: “Through you and with you we will keep the Martyrs’ (Shahids’) wills. [The Shabiba student movement] is the free and courageous voice of all the students.
Its establishment: Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the legendary resolve [demonstrated there], Fatah focused on revolutionary military action. Immediately after the exit from Beirut, the scattering of the revolutionary forces, and their moving away from the line of direct friction with the Israeli enemy, the idea to transfer the Palestinian resistance from outside to within the occupied Palestinian territories began to form. Prince of Martyrs Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125 Israelis), worked to establish the Shabiba, and contacts began with the Fatah leaders in the Israeli detention camps. In 1982, the first Shabiba summit was held in Birzeit.
Outwardly, Shabiba began with the adoption of the social program, but the secret aspect of the movement was to organize the Palestinian young and increase their awareness of the resistance to the occupation. In 1982-1987, the Shabiba’s plans were based on volunteer activity, such as street cleaning, harvesting citrus fruit, harvesting olives, and assisting the residents of the refugee camps and participating in their celebrations and sorrow. Shabiba grew considerably. It participated in the elections for student union councils in universities and institutions [of higher education] in the West Bank, and was victorious in them. At this point Shabiba began to influence the Palestinian street, and began to clearly represent the viewpoints of the PLO and Fatah. With the beginning of the popular Intifada (i.e., the first Intifada, Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, 1987-1993), Shabiba became a revolutionary movement that openly resists [the occupation]. Shabiba people and members joined the popular committees, and Shabiba had the honor of leading the first popular Intifada and the [Western Wall] tunnel uprising in 1996 (i.e., three days of Palestinian-Israeli fighting in September 1996 after Israel opened a tunnel near the Temple Mount to ease access to and from the Western Wall). With the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005), Shabiba returned to its pioneering role in leading the Intifada, and sacrificed hundreds of its sons as Martyrs, prisoners, and injured”
Another page shows people marching with Fatah flags and a sign with a picture of terrorist Dalal Mughrabi.
Text at top of page: “I spent my life in the Fatah Movement, and it was my school. It was what caused me to hold on to my land and to love my people and my homeland”
Text on sign with picture of Dalal Mughrabi: “Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi”
Text on page:
“A few lines about Dalal Mughrabi
Dalal Mughrabi was a young Palestinian woman who was born in 1958 in one of the refugee camps in Beirut. She was the daughter of a family from Jaffa, which fled to Lebanon following the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) in 1948…
On the morning of March 11, 1978, Dalal disembarked together with her squad of self-sacrificing fighters (Fedayeen) from a boat that passed the Palestinian shore, and together with her squad rowed to shore in two rubber boats, to an unoccupied stretch [of shore]. The landing was successful and the Israelis did not discover her. [Dalal] carried out the operation (i.e., terror attack, 37 murdered, 12 of them children) and died as a Martyr together with eight of her companions. An additional two were arrested.
The mission of the committee
Out of belief in Allah and the right of His Palestinian people to liberate its land, [out of belief] in the goals of the Fatah Movement, and out of belief in the pioneering role of the female student, the Sisters of Martyr Dalal Mughrabi Committee was established. This was in order to serve as a student framework that would represent the leading educated female student, who possesses awareness…”
Another page shows a helmet with the Israeli flag on it with Israeli products inside it, and a symbol over them forbidding them.
Text above helmet with Israeli products: “Do not fund their bullets – resist by boycotting the occupation’s products”
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Sep. 22, 2016]