Hamas asks Egypt to help save 'Mother of Martyrs'
Jul 24, 2008 22:59 | Updated Jul 24, 2008 23:22
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Miriam Farhat, the Palestinian mother who became famous in 2002 when she appeared in a video encouraging her son to attack a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, was reported Thursday to be in critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack.
"When I see all the Jews in Palestine killed, that will be enough for me," she said on camera. "I wish he will kill as many as he can, so they will be scared." Her son Muhammad, 19, killed five teenagers and wounded 23 people at Atzmona before he was shot dead in March of that year.
Hamas seized the opportunity of her illness to exert pressure on the Egyptians to reopen the Rafah border crossing so that she could be transferred to an Egyptian hospital.
The Egyptians initially refused to allow her in, but later succumbed to the pressure and reopened the crossing.
Farhat's eldest son, Nidal, was killed in 2003 while he was preparing for another attack. A third son, Rawad, died in an IAF raid on his vehicle in 2005.
The death of her three sons earned Farhat the title "Mother of Martyrs" and turned her into a heroic symbol of the second intifada in the eyes of many Palestinians.
Farhat, 59, was elected as a Hamas representative in the parliamentary elections that were held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in January 2006.
As she lay in the intensive care unit at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, Hamas leaders appealed to Egypt to reopen the Rafah border crossing immediately to enable Farhat to receive medical treatment in Cairo.
Relations between Hamas and Egypt have been strained lately after Hamas officials accused Cairo of failing to fulfill a promise to reopen the Rafah crossing in the aftermath of the cease-fire agreement that was reached with Israel last month.
Tensions between the two parties escalated last week when some Hamas officials said that Egypt was not an "honest broker" in the talks over the release of kidnapped St.-Sgt Gilad Schalit. The officials said that Hamas would not resume talks over the release of Schalit until the Egyptians agreed to reopen the border crossing.
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was among the first to visit Farhat in hospital. Emerging from the intensive care unit, Haniyeh urged the Egyptians to reopen the crossing to "save her life." He said that the time has come to reopen Rafah permanently.
"More than 1.5 million Palestinians have been living in a big prison [in the Gaza Strip] for the past 14 months," he said.
"The siege has resulted in the death of more than 215 Palestinians who were unable to receive medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip."
Hamas Health Minister Bassem Naim also made an urgent appeal to his Egyptian counterpart to allow Farhat to be moved to a hospital in Cairo.
Earlier, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of "participating in the siege on the Gaza Strip." He said the continued blockade was aimed at "blackmailing" Hamas.
"Mubarak and Abbas bear the responsibility for the ongoing catastrophe in the Gaza Strip," he added, warning that Farhat, who is popularly known as Umm Nidal, was in urgent need of advanced medical treatment.
"The Mother of Martyrs is dying and the Arab world does not seem to care," a Hamas representative told The Jerusalem Post. "It's a disgrace that a Palestinian woman who sacrificed three of her sons for the cause is being barred from receiving proper medical treatment in an Arab country."
Another Hamas official warned that Farhat's death could trigger a wave of anti-Egyptian protests throughout the Gaza Strip. "If the woman dies because she is denied medical treatment in Egypt, the entire Gaza Strip will explode," he said.
"I don't rule out the possibility that much of the anger would be directed toward Egypt and that people would try to storm the Rafah border crossing."
The video in which she appeared saying farewell to her son Muhammad before he set out on his suicidal mission came as shock to many.
Asked why she had encouraged her sons to carry out attacks, Farhat said that she wished she had 100 sons to sacrifice that way.
In a series of interviews with the Palestinian and Arab media, Farhat admitted that after the death of her first son had she encouraged her other sons to follow in his footsteps and become shahids (martyrs): "After the martyrdom [operation], my heart was peaceful about Muhammad. I encouraged all my sons to die a martyr's death, and I wish this even for myself."
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sick mind and heart of that mother ! whats wrong with this world! hatred that easy? she need not worry about fixing her heart from a heart attack bcz her heart is filled with hate and murder !
QUOTE(Olivia* @ Jul 26 2008, 04:50 AM) 
Hamas asks Egypt to help save 'Mother of Martyrs'
Jul 24, 2008 22:59 | Updated Jul 24, 2008 23:22
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Miriam Farhat, the Palestinian mother who became famous in 2002 when she appeared in a video encouraging her son to attack a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, was reported Thursday to be in critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack.
"When I see all the Jews in Palestine killed, that will be enough for me," she said on camera. "I wish he will kill as many as he can, so they will be scared." Her son Muhammad, 19, killed five teenagers and wounded 23 people at Atzmona before he was shot dead in March of that year.
Hamas seized the opportunity of her illness to exert pressure on the Egyptians to reopen the Rafah border crossing so that she could be transferred to an Egyptian hospital.
The Egyptians initially refused to allow her in, but later succumbed to the pressure and reopened the crossing.
Farhat's eldest son, Nidal, was killed in 2003 while he was preparing for another attack. A third son, Rawad, died in an IAF raid on his vehicle in 2005.
The death of her three sons earned Farhat the title "Mother of Martyrs" and turned her into a heroic symbol of the second intifada in the eyes of many Palestinians.
Farhat, 59, was elected as a Hamas representative in the parliamentary elections that were held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in January 2006.
As she lay in the intensive care unit at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, Hamas leaders appealed to Egypt to reopen the Rafah border crossing immediately to enable Farhat to receive medical treatment in Cairo.
Relations between Hamas and Egypt have been strained lately after Hamas officials accused Cairo of failing to fulfill a promise to reopen the Rafah crossing in the aftermath of the cease-fire agreement that was reached with Israel last month.
Tensions between the two parties escalated last week when some Hamas officials said that Egypt was not an "honest broker" in the talks over the release of kidnapped St.-Sgt Gilad Schalit. The officials said that Hamas would not resume talks over the release of Schalit until the Egyptians agreed to reopen the border crossing.
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was among the first to visit Farhat in hospital. Emerging from the intensive care unit, Haniyeh urged the Egyptians to reopen the crossing to "save her life." He said that the time has come to reopen Rafah permanently.
"More than 1.5 million Palestinians have been living in a big prison [in the Gaza Strip] for the past 14 months," he said.
"The siege has resulted in the death of more than 215 Palestinians who were unable to receive medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip."
Hamas Health Minister Bassem Naim also made an urgent appeal to his Egyptian counterpart to allow Farhat to be moved to a hospital in Cairo.
Earlier, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of "participating in the siege on the Gaza Strip." He said the continued blockade was aimed at "blackmailing" Hamas.
"Mubarak and Abbas bear the responsibility for the ongoing catastrophe in the Gaza Strip," he added, warning that Farhat, who is popularly known as Umm Nidal, was in urgent need of advanced medical treatment.
"The Mother of Martyrs is dying and the Arab world does not seem to care," a Hamas representative told The Jerusalem Post. "It's a disgrace that a Palestinian woman who sacrificed three of her sons for the cause is being barred from receiving proper medical treatment in an Arab country."
Another Hamas official warned that Farhat's death could trigger a wave of anti-Egyptian protests throughout the Gaza Strip. "If the woman dies because she is denied medical treatment in Egypt, the entire Gaza Strip will explode," he said.
"I don't rule out the possibility that much of the anger would be directed toward Egypt and that people would try to storm the Rafah border crossing."
The video in which she appeared saying farewell to her son Muhammad before he set out on his suicidal mission came as shock to many.
Asked why she had encouraged her sons to carry out attacks, Farhat said that she wished she had 100 sons to sacrifice that way.
In a series of interviews with the Palestinian and Arab media, Farhat admitted that after the death of her first son had she encouraged her other sons to follow in his footsteps and become shahids (martyrs): "After the martyrdom [operation], my heart was peaceful about Muhammad. I encouraged all my sons to die a martyr's death, and I wish this even for myself."
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Jul 24, 2008 22:59 | Updated Jul 24, 2008 23:22
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Miriam Farhat, the Palestinian mother who became famous in 2002 when she appeared in a video encouraging her son to attack a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, was reported Thursday to be in critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack.
"When I see all the Jews in Palestine killed, that will be enough for me," she said on camera. "I wish he will kill as many as he can, so they will be scared." Her son Muhammad, 19, killed five teenagers and wounded 23 people at Atzmona before he was shot dead in March of that year.
Hamas seized the opportunity of her illness to exert pressure on the Egyptians to reopen the Rafah border crossing so that she could be transferred to an Egyptian hospital.
The Egyptians initially refused to allow her in, but later succumbed to the pressure and reopened the crossing.
Farhat's eldest son, Nidal, was killed in 2003 while he was preparing for another attack. A third son, Rawad, died in an IAF raid on his vehicle in 2005.
The death of her three sons earned Farhat the title "Mother of Martyrs" and turned her into a heroic symbol of the second intifada in the eyes of many Palestinians.
Farhat, 59, was elected as a Hamas representative in the parliamentary elections that were held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in January 2006.
As she lay in the intensive care unit at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, Hamas leaders appealed to Egypt to reopen the Rafah border crossing immediately to enable Farhat to receive medical treatment in Cairo.
Relations between Hamas and Egypt have been strained lately after Hamas officials accused Cairo of failing to fulfill a promise to reopen the Rafah crossing in the aftermath of the cease-fire agreement that was reached with Israel last month.
Tensions between the two parties escalated last week when some Hamas officials said that Egypt was not an "honest broker" in the talks over the release of kidnapped St.-Sgt Gilad Schalit. The officials said that Hamas would not resume talks over the release of Schalit until the Egyptians agreed to reopen the border crossing.
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was among the first to visit Farhat in hospital. Emerging from the intensive care unit, Haniyeh urged the Egyptians to reopen the crossing to "save her life." He said that the time has come to reopen Rafah permanently.
"More than 1.5 million Palestinians have been living in a big prison [in the Gaza Strip] for the past 14 months," he said.
"The siege has resulted in the death of more than 215 Palestinians who were unable to receive medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip."
Hamas Health Minister Bassem Naim also made an urgent appeal to his Egyptian counterpart to allow Farhat to be moved to a hospital in Cairo.
Earlier, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of "participating in the siege on the Gaza Strip." He said the continued blockade was aimed at "blackmailing" Hamas.
"Mubarak and Abbas bear the responsibility for the ongoing catastrophe in the Gaza Strip," he added, warning that Farhat, who is popularly known as Umm Nidal, was in urgent need of advanced medical treatment.
"The Mother of Martyrs is dying and the Arab world does not seem to care," a Hamas representative told The Jerusalem Post. "It's a disgrace that a Palestinian woman who sacrificed three of her sons for the cause is being barred from receiving proper medical treatment in an Arab country."
Another Hamas official warned that Farhat's death could trigger a wave of anti-Egyptian protests throughout the Gaza Strip. "If the woman dies because she is denied medical treatment in Egypt, the entire Gaza Strip will explode," he said.
"I don't rule out the possibility that much of the anger would be directed toward Egypt and that people would try to storm the Rafah border crossing."
The video in which she appeared saying farewell to her son Muhammad before he set out on his suicidal mission came as shock to many.
Asked why she had encouraged her sons to carry out attacks, Farhat said that she wished she had 100 sons to sacrifice that way.
In a series of interviews with the Palestinian and Arab media, Farhat admitted that after the death of her first son had she encouraged her other sons to follow in his footsteps and become shahids (martyrs): "After the martyrdom [operation], my heart was peaceful about Muhammad. I encouraged all my sons to die a martyr's death, and I wish this even for myself."
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I find it sad that she thinks more death will somehow bring peace to her life. How could any mother want to sacrifice her sons. Even for an extremely good and important cause I would sacrifice myself before I would my children or any family member. I could never stand to be the cause of my love ones deaths. So sad.
ahhh also must add... The Bible says:
Matthew 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
gotta love, bless and pray for even my enemies... not go around blowing them up!
Matthew 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
gotta love, bless and pray for even my enemies... not go around blowing them up!
I was thinking of an exception being like the movie Independence Day. I have no problem blowing aliens from other places up if they are going to take over our planet, but to just go out and find innocent people to blow up. That is just wrong.
QUOTE(S and S @ Jul 28 2008, 01:17 AM)
I was thinking of an exception being like the movie Independence Day. I have no problem blowing aliens from other places up if they are going to take over our planet, but to just go out and find innocent people to blow up. That is just wrong.
and in their heart and mind that is sooo right? gosh! the day of judgement the instant they died and stood before the LORD GOD & realize they were sooooo wrong !
QUOTE(TamaraLovesAdam @ Jul 28 2008, 12:20 AM)
QUOTE(S and S @ Jul 28 2008, 01:17 AM)
I was thinking of an exception being like the movie Independence Day. I have no problem blowing aliens from other places up if they are going to take over our planet, but to just go out and find innocent people to blow up. That is just wrong.
and in their heart and mind that is sooo right? gosh! the day of judgement the instant they died and stood before the LORD GOD & realize they were sooooo wrong !
I don't think its possible to understand their logic.
QUOTE(TamaraLovesAdam @ Jul 28 2008, 12:12 AM)
ahhh also must add... The Bible says:
Matthew 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
gotta love, bless and pray for even my enemies... not go around blowing them up!
Matthew 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
gotta love, bless and pray for even my enemies... not go around blowing them up!
i love and agree with that.
but do you think you can do that all the time or even you can do that in our life? if so why the USA president and government did't hear to the bible and do what it ask them to do.
so talking about whats going on in Iraq and in Afghanistan its against your bible . which mean its kinda hard to do all what your bible ask you to do. plus there are so many people who misunderstood the bible. the same for some Muslims they misunderstood the qura'an and there are some Muslims thinking if they will blow up their selves they will be in heaven .(GOD doesn't ask us to do that in qura'an )
let me make my self a little bit clear . i disagree with those people who blow their selves up even to kill their enemies .
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