So Deep is The Despair, The Hate and The Desperation"I am Flaming Up with Rage Over the Fate of Our Homeland"
Fatima al-Najjar was a mother of eight children and at the same time a grandmother of ten grandchildren. She was indeed the executor of the shaheed bombing operation last week (23/11/2006) amongst a group of Israeli state terrorists positioned by the Al-Karamah street in eastern Jabalya refugee camp, in the northern parts of Gaza Strip.
Upon the completion of the shaheed operation, her family gave away delicacies and sweets to the neighbors as an act of thankfulness for the successful shaheed operation carried out by the mother who was also a grandmother at the same time.
Ahmad, the youngest grandchild of Hajah Fatima said, “Grandma advised me that if she was shaheed I should ask money from my father and buy sweets to be given away to my friends and smaller children.”
Fatima al-Najjar, on Thursday (23/11/2006), walked close to the Israelis, which earlier that day made an incursion in to Jabalyia refugee camp causing horror and death to her people. The Israelis killed two teenagers and wounded a large number of Jabalya's residents. The bombs attached to her waist belt detonated and caused a number of soldiers dead and the rest wounded. Fatima declared in her farewell videotaped speech, “I offer myself for the sake of Allah and in sacrifice to the homeland. I am flaming up with rage over the fate of our homeland, over our martyrs and the fate of our prisoners,”
“To my sons and daughters I call for them not to weep over my death but hand out sweets to the people,” Fatima said as she was reading her will with a M16 rifle over her shoulders.
The Palestine Homeland Defense of Hamas organization, Ezzeden al-Qassam Brigades, has claimed responsibility and said the attack was in vengeance against the Israeli criminal conduct on the Palestinians. According to al-Qassam, as a shaheed bomber, Fatima al-Najjar was the oldest woman in all of the female shaheed bombers. But according to her family, it was not a strange thing to happen as all these while, Fatima al-Najjar was intensely involved in many activities to defend Palestine despite her old age.In every Palestinian family there are Martyrs - victims from Israeli criminal conduct - earlier three of Fatima's sons were arrested by the Israelis. In 1987, one of them was sentenced to 25 years, after serving ten years, he was released 1997. Two other sons were injured in an Israeli attack under the first Palestinian Intifada in 1988. The home of the family was destroyed at the same time. In 2004 her grandson was gunned down by a gang of Israeli intruders, during an offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.
Sanaa, one of her nieces said that Fatima al-Najjar always uttered, “I am a shaheed bomber.. I am a shaheed bomber” while in discussion with her relatives. “I will always remember her advice to me, if you want to be protected by Allah, you must memorize surah Al-Baqarah…”
Nahad, one of her in-laws said, Hajah Fatima al-Najjar always thought of dying as shaheed. “She always thought of dying as shaheed and said that the young men who performed the shaheed acts could not be any better than herself, and also said that one day she would carry out the shaheed act.” “Hajah Fatima al-Najjar …” Nahad added, “...always cried when hearing the Israeli soldiers killing the Palestinian children, therefore she said that she would retaliate against Israel.”
Meanwhile Fathiya, her eldest daughter said, “If we told her not to get herself involved in the resistance as there are already a lot of young man who fulfill the obligation of resisting the enemy, she would say, ‘But why are we sitting at home? Do we lack something that we can’t take part in defending our land by contributing with our lives?’”
Fatima al-Najjar, was a memorizer of Al-Quran and someone who loved Al-Quran. “My mother was a memorizer of Al-Quran and she was very attentive with her grandchildren towards the issues of Al-Quran memorization. It was customary for her to sit amongst them to listen to the contents of Al-Quran. She also taught the ladies to read Al-Quran and guided them with the memorization of Al-Quran,” Fathiya said.
The shaheed bombing operation executed by Fatima was not the first life-risking operation she took as sometimes ago Fatima was a heroic woman who was in the foremost row when thousands of Beit Hanoun Muslimah managed to break the Israeli terrorists' blockade when they surrounded Masjid An Nashr. The women provided cover for the besieged resistance fighters, held up in the Masjid. - The men were smuggled out in women clothes and escaped the Israelis which surrounded the Masjid, and a certain death or lifelong torture in Israeli death camps. Fathiya said, “On that day, as she was extremely enthusiastic we advised her several times not to get too close to the Israeli forces.” Earlier before that Fatima al-Najjar even became a part of the human chain to protect a house that would be bulldozed by Israel.
In the list of female shaheed bombers, Fatima al-Najjar was the ninth woman to have performed the shaheed bombing operation against the Israeli invaders. Before Fatima a Palestinian lady named Mirfat Masud, also originating from Jabaliya, carried out a shaheed bombing operation that wounded a number of Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoun.
The Palestinian Resistance are intensifying their attacks on the Israeli occupant, both inside Palestinian occupied territories, and on Israelis illegal settlement "outside" Palestinian territories. The Palestinian resistance vowed to continue the battle against the Israelis occupation.
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