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Siham Thabet

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Female
  • Born in: 1949
  • Age: 67
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Born in 1949 in Beitfourik village, Nablus, husband Dr. Thabet Thabet, West Bank leader, assassinated by Israel, lives in Tulkarem, mother of three.
 
Initially went to college in Cairo where she studied Dentistry and met her husband
1974 Graduated from Baghdad
One of the founders of Women’s Committee for Social Work
Petitioned Israel that they could have arrested her husband rather than kill him.


Notable Quotes
"I am more civilized than them [the Israelis]. I have used the law."
 -BBC News, February 2001
 
Israel needs to "stop its policy of summary executions against residents of the West Bank and Gaza and rule that the order to execute people without trial as a result of a premeditated military act and not during battle or a military operation is illegal."
-- text of her petition to the High Court of Justice, cited in the Jerusalem Post, February 13, 2001



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