Draft:Jamila al-Shanti
| Jamila al-Shanti | |
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| Name | Jamila Abdullah Taha al-Shanti |
| Other Names | Umm Abdullah |
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| Death Place | Gaza |
| Death Date | 19 October 2023 CE |
| Religion | Islam |
Jamila al-Shanti (wife of Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi, founder of the Hamas Movement), was a Palestinian teacher, university professor, and politician. She was one of the members of the Palestine Legislative Council and was elected from the "Change and Reform List". She was among the individuals wanted by Israel who was martyrdom during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, as a result of an Israeli attack on the Jabalia camp.
Biography
Jamila was born in the Gaza Strip in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza City. Her family was from the city of Al-Majdal near occupied Ashkelon who were displaced due to war. She joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1977 during her university studies at Ain Shams University in Arab Republic of Egypt. She was among the first generations that established the Hamas Movement in 1987. After the success of the women's march which led to breaking the siege of a group of Palestinian activists in the Mosque Al-Nasr in Beit Hanoun city in the north of the Gaza Strip, the occupiers placed her on the Israeli assassination list. She received a BA in English Language from Ain Shams University in Arab Republic of Egypt in 1980. and worked as a teacher for ten years in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. She returned to the Gaza Strip in 1990 to continue organizational activities in the Hamas Movement. Alongside political activity, she received a PhD in Educational Management in 2013 from "Farha" College of Family Sciences at the University of Dubai in the UAE via "Distance Learning" technology. She participated in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections in the field of Educational Sciences in 2012 and in 2011 was elected to the presidency of the Women's Shura Council. Occupying forces bombed and destroyed her house during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
Education and Teaching
al-Shanti received a BA in English Language from Ain Shams University in Arab Republic of Egypt in 1980 and afterwards worked as a teacher for 10 years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She continued her studies and received her Master's degree from the Islamic University of Gaza City in 1998. She completed her studies in 2013 by obtaining a PhD in Educational Management from the College of Family Sciences at the University of Dubai in the UAE via distance learning technology.
Political Activity
al-Shanti was one of the activists of the Hamas Movement since the beginning of the establishment of the Hamas Movement and her work there reached its peak when she became the first woman to become a member of the Political Bureau, a position she attained in 2021 by election and not by appointment.
She joined the organizational work of Hamas after returning from Saudi Arabia to the Gaza Strip in 1990 and headed the Women's Shura Council of the Movement for two consecutive terms.
Her name became prominent when by leading the women's march on November 3, she managed to break the siege imposed by the Zionist regime on a number of Palestinian resistance fighters who had taken refuge in a Mosque in Beit Hanoun city in the north of the Gaza Strip. This made her one of the most prominent names on the Israeli assassination list.
She was elected in 2006 as a member of the Legislative Council for the "Reform and Change" bloc (affiliated with Hamas) and for years led Hamas's feminist activities and was appointed as Minister of Women in the Gaza Government.
Failed Assassination
Three days after the success of the women's march led by Jamila al-Shanti aimed at breaking the siege of a group of resistance fighters who were under siege, Israeli occupier airplanes targeted her house, resulting in the killing of people who were near the house, and also her sister-in-law and two sisters were killed. Jamila survived this incident and lived because she was not present at the intended location at that time.
Activities
- Member of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in 2021.
- Minister of Women's Affairs in the Palestine Government in Gaza in 2013.
- Member of the Legislative Council for the "Change and Reform" bloc in 1385 (2006).
- For years led Hamas's feminist work.
- Supervised the university file and the role of the Holy Quran in the Hamas Movement.
- Immediately after obtaining her BA degree in 1980, worked as a teacher for 10 years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- After returning to the Gaza Strip in 1990, joined the organizational work of the Hamas Movement.
- Headed the Women's Shura Council for two consecutive terms.
- Was a lecturer at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the Islamic University.
- Worked as an educational supervisor in the Islamic Society.
Martyrdom
Jamila al-Shanti on Thursday 19 October 2023 CE (27 Mehr 1402) as a result of an air strike by airplanes of the Zionist regime on her house reached martyrdom and thus was the third member of the Hamas Political Bureau to be martyred during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation as a result of an Israeli attack on the Jabalia camp.