Daughter of prominent Palestinian martyr believes Iranian women have offered a model to world
Salah Shahada was among the most prominent Palestinian individuals the Zionist regime was seeking to assassinate. Shahada founded the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). He was also considered a spiritual father of the Hamas members.
He was born in Beit Hanun village, north of Gaza.
Shahada was martyred after an Israeli F-16 fighter plane bombed a residential area on July 23, 2003 where he was residing along with other Palestinian families. 16 Palestinians were martyred during the bombardment including Salah Shahada, his wife and one of his daughters. More than 100 Palestinians were also injured in the terrorist operation. Zionists considered the terror operation a victory as it led to Shahada’s martyrdom.
Qodsna interviewed Um Ahmad, another daughter to Shahada about her views as a representative of the third Palestinian generation, concerning the situation on the ground across the Middle East and the world.
Asked about the Muslim situation after the ouster of former Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, Um Ahmad said the days of the Zionist regime was numbered. “Tel Aviv is growingly alone in the region; his supporters like Mubarak, Bin Ali and Qazzafi are no longer there,” she said, adding that the regional natgions have arrived at the idea that they must stand up and materialize their freedom through Islamic resistance rather than compromise.
Um Ahmad believed that the current regional revolutions will definitely boost the capabilities of the resistance and that the road to defeat of the Zionist regime was more paved with those Islamic uprisings.
Asked about the IRI’s role in the regional uprisings, Um Ahmad called Iran top supporter of the Palestinian nation in the path of Jihad and resistance. She said Palestinians mostly ignore the media which try to deface the Iranian nation, adding that the Palestinian nation has found the track of Imam Khomeini, the father of Islamic Revolution, as relevant to their cause.
“Albeit all efforts by the satellite channels to mar the status of Iran among the Arab countries, especially the Palestinians, they Iranian nation has been enjoying a favorable status among the world Muslims,” she said.
Also wife of Muhammad Ja’bari who was assassinated by the Zionist regime in 2004, Um Ahmad said she considered the regional uprisings as inspired by Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Shahada also had a message for her women colleagues in Iran. She said the Iranian women must cherish the dignity the Islamic Revolution granted to them and that they proved for the world that a woman can attend any social sectors and at the same time comply with the Islamic code of clothes.
“The Iranian women offered a model to the world,” she added.