Palestinian Authority leader: A woman gains “respect and high status in society when her son dies as a Martyr”
The Palestinian woman "gives up her son who goes to fight with a rock, and she gives him the rock while knowing what her son's fate will be"
PA governor: Female terrorist murderers are the heroes of International Women's Day
As in previous years, the Palestinian Authority used International Women's Day to glorify the memory of female terrorists and the value of mothers who knowingly send their sons to die as "Martyrs."
Senior Fatah leader Abbas Zaki sang the praises of the mothers who publicly celebrate their sons' deaths. He also lauded the mothers who even give their sons the stones to throw at Israelis with the full knowledge that their children will die. Sending her son to his death, however, is not in vain, according to Zaki: "She begins to feel that she has gained respect and high status in society when her son dies as a Martyr."
Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: "Allah is witness to the fact that there is no woman in the world like the Palestinian woman. The woman who makes sounds of joy for the Martyr and sings songs of the revolution for the groom (i.e., a Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Islam). This woman is the one who gives up her son as he goes to fight with a rock, and she gives him the rock while knowing what her son's fate will be. However, this woman is placed on a pedestal because she gave oxygen to this homeland, and she begins to feel that she has gained respect and high status in society when her son dies as a Martyr."
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, March 10, 2025]
The PA also chose International Women's Day to specifically glorify mass murderer Dalal Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Road Massacre, which was the most lethal attack in Israel's history prior to October 7, 2023. Mughrabi, along with other Fatah terrorists, hijacked a bus, murdered 37 people, of which 12 were children, and wounded 70.
Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam wrote on Facebook that "on this day… we pray for our female Martyrs and leaders whose blood paved the path of freedom, from Dalal Mughrabi to… the rest of the icons of the struggle":
"On March 8 [International Women's Day], we send a salute of pride and honor to the Palestinian woman wherever she is…
On this day, we remember our female prisoners who are dealing with the chains and prison guards, and we pray for our female Martyrs and leaders whose blood paved the path of freedom, from Dalal Mughrabi to Samiha Khalil (i.e., politician connected to the DFLP terror organization), [former PA Minister of Women's Affairs] Rabiha Dhiab, and the rest of the icons of the struggle."
[Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor Laila Ghannam, Facebook page, March 8, 2025]
In the PA's official daily, the Ramallah governor continued to extol the role of all Palestinian women as terrorists—the "Martyr, prisoner, and wounded"—and terrorist supporters— "the Martyr's mother, the prisoner's mother, his wife, his sister, and his daughter" [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 9, 2025].
When someone is referred to as a "Martyr," or Shahid in Arabic, it means that the person died while carrying out an idyllic act for Allah, such as the way Dalal Mughrabi murdered children in cold blood.
In yet another article, the official PA daily honored other female terrorists as "icons": Zakiya Shammout—who planted a bomb in the Afula market in 1969, murdering 1 and injuring dozens; Shadia Abu Ghazaleh—who prepared bombs for many attacks as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); and Intisar Al-Wazir—the wife of Abu Jihad. Abu Jihad planned numerous lethal terror attacks from the 1960s to the 1980s in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered:
"Here are some names from the iconic list of the pioneering Palestinian women: … Intisar Al-Wazir, … Zakiya Shammout, Shadia Abu Ghazaleh."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 8, 2025]
In addition to regularly broadcasting that dying for the sake of Allah is the greatest of acts, the PA exploits International Women's Day year in and year out to focus on women linked to terror. It does this in order to reiterate that the highest form of feminine hero is the terrorist Martyr or the mother of the terrorist Martyr.