PLC Lauds Efforts, Sacrifices of First Female Member of Hamas’ Political Bureau
Al-Shanti was martyred after the Zionist regime’s aircraft bombed her home in Gaza City.
The PLC said in a statement on Thursday that Al-Shanti lived her life in making sacrifices and striving for the promotion of the cause of Palestine, Al-Jazeera reported.
It said she played an important role in Palestinians’ parliament, university, politics, defense and education.
The 68-year-old was martyred Wednesday after a bombing by the Israeli regime’s aircraft at dawn on her home in Gaza.
After Zakariya Abu Muammar and Jawad Abu Shumala, she is the third member of Hamas’ Political Bureau to be martyred since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation.
Al-Shanti (Um Abdullah) founded the women’s wing of the Hamas movement in Gaza and was the first female member of the political bureau.
She obtained a doctorate degree in education administration in 2013, from the UAE.
In 2006, she was elected as a member of the Legislative Council for the Hamas Change and Reform bloc.
In 2013, Al-Shanti was appointed Minister of Women in the Hamas government.
Al-Shanti’s name became prominent on November 3, 2006 when a women’s march that she led succeeded in breaking a siege imposed by the occupation army on a mosque in the town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Three days later, her house was bombed by Israeli planes, resulting in the death of her sister-in-law, Nahla Al-Shanti, and two other people.
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