Ahlam Mazen At-Tamimi
- You killed the Palestinian children
- West Bank
Pictures of Palestinian woman Spread on the walls of the streets of Ramallah, the woman smile full of challenge and confidence, she is Ahlam At-Tamimi, the first female member in Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
Her short biography became source of great pride to her family, to her movement and to its people.
Ahlam colleagues at the University of Bir Zeit were not expecting this girl to be a courage one and to be a secret member of Palestinian military organization especially the most secret and organized, Al Qassam Brigades.
Background:
She was born on October 20th, 1980, in Az-Zarqa in Jordan. Her roots back to the village of An Naabi Saleh near Ramallah. She finished her primary, preparatory & secondary school in the city of Az-Zarqa inm Jordan, and then she joined to the Press and Information Department at Bir Zeit University,
She was on her way to graduate when Al Aqsa Intifada brooked out, Ahlam saw the Zionist criminality, and the Zionist army killed thousands of the Palestinian civilians over the West Bank & Gaza strip.
Media as a mean of resistance:
Ahlam tried to fight the occupation by her own way, she focused in the program she was introducing it in a local television in the city of Ramallah, to monitor the practices of the occupation.
And through its work, Ahlam faced a tragic stories caused by the occupation, so she decided to go a step further, in the meantime, her colleague in the Faculty of Information and the Press, saw her as a suitable person to a member in Al Qassam Brigades.
Wa;el Douglas consulted his leadership in the Brigades, his direct leader Abdullah Al Barghouti agreed to join her to the Brigades.
The first step in the al-Qassam Brigades:
Ahlam return from exile full of sufficient intelligence, enthusiasm and feelings of national, she has great dreams in the life and a journey of success.
Al Qassam leadership ordered Douglas to recruit her; she became the first female member in the Brigades.
On July 27th, 2001, Ahlam assisted the Brigades in executing an operation in Jerusalem as a response to Zionist assassinations. On August 9th, 2001, she also assisted the Brigades in executing an operation in Jerusalem as a response to Zionist assassinations for two Hamas leaders in the West Bank.
Stability and challenge in the face of the occupiers:
When she was arrested, the Zionist investigators subjected her to severe torture, the Zionist military court sentenced to life imprisonment 16 times & 1584 years with a recommendation not to release her in any possible exchange of prisoners.
Ahlam faced the Zionist judges with a smile and said "I do not recognize the legitimacy of this court, and I do not want to introduce myself to you by mentioning my name or age, I introduce myself with my actions that you well, I see you in this court, angry, and it is the same anger that in my heart and the hearts of the Palestinian people, and if you said that I had no heart or sense, where were your hearts when you kill children in Rafah, Jenin and Ramallah, Where is the sense??."
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