The role of women in expanding resistance

Ayatollah Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, secretary general of the SDPN at the meeting on Monday, pointed out that women in Islam are mentioned in four aspects. The first aspect is defining the woman as a daughter.

In Islam, there are many hadiths about the position and honor of girls reading the boys.

The second aspect is the position of a woman as a wife.

In Islam, women are considered the most important core of the family and have a pivotal role, SDPN secretary general added.

The third aspect of woman from the perspective of Islam is defined as mother, he noted.

Ayatollah Rahimian considered the fourth aspect of women's value in Islam as a role model for human society.

Meanwhile, Nasser Abu-Sharif, Islamic Jihad Movement Representative to Iran also said at the meeting that “With the victory of the Islamic Revolution, a kind of religiosity was formed among the Palestinian people”.  

The Palestinian girls, even despite the dissatisfaction of some mothers, chose the veil as a symbol of the Palestinian woman and a form of resistance, he added.

Pointing to roles of the some of the Palestinian women in the resistance and defense of the Palestinian land and the Palestinian identity, Abu Sharif said “One of the roles that Palestinian women play in defense of Palestine and the religious identity of Palestine is the marabouts. Currently, about 400 women are part of the al -Aqsa mosque guards.

"Marabouts or the guardian women of the al -Aqsa mosque are the women who dedicated themselves to the al -Aqsa mosque and defending it”.

He described the veil of Palestinian women as a kind of resistance to occupiers seeking to eliminate Palestinian identity.

Hijab in Palestine is religion, not slogan, Abu-Sharif said, adding that “Before the Islamic Revolution of Iran, Western coverage was prevalent in Palestine. Even in the city of TulKaram, one of the small towns of Palestine, there was no hijab. But after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, a new approach was formed in Palestinian women, and Palestinian women tended to be a full veil.

Meanwhile, Hossein Royvaran, political deputy of the SDPN pointing to the several examples of the role of Palestinian women and their strategic behavior in changing Palestinian equations, said: "One of the most important role of Palestinian women in changing the equations of today's Palestine was the duty that the women played as the narrator and transferee of Palestinian history and identity over the years”.

He called the positive presence of Palestinian women in the democratic war against the Zionist regime as another case of the role of women in the resistance, adding that two -thirds of the Palestinian community, were displaced in 1948 and the Palestinians became a minority in their land.

Since those years, Palestinian women entered the population war and have been successful in the war, Royvaran added. The Palestinians who had minorities in the 48th year succeeded in winning the population war, and in 2016, Rivlin, Then Zionist regime president was forced to admit that the Palestinians have a majority since this year.

The political expert also described the position of women as the wives and mothers of martyrs and fighters as the third leading role of Palestinian women, adding: In the first intifada in 1987 and the second intifada in 2000 and the current intifada in the West Bank, woman plays a key role as a mother, wife and daughters of martyrs and resistance fighters.

Meanwhile, Elham Kadkhodaee, Tehran university professor, said at the meeting that “From the very beginning that resistance in Palestine was formed seriously, Palestinian women entered the struggle”.

In 1929, we saw the formation of the Arab women's executive committee and the National Palestinian Women's Political Movement, one of the first groups to stand up to the Balfour Declaration as a starting point to legitimize the occupation of the Palestinian land, she added.

“Since the 1960s, Palestinian women entered the military arena, and figures such as Leila Khalid emerged who became the myth of Palestinian women. During this decade, along with the military phase, women also entered the formal arena of politics and gradually entered the resistance political parties to play various roles in this sector”.

“In the Palestinian struggle culture, childbirth is known to be a kind of resistance”, Kadkhodaee noted.  

She added that the struggle between Palestine and the Zionist regime is a kind of narrative warfare.