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Zakia Shamout

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Algeria
  • Gender: Female
  • Born in: 1945
  • Age: 77
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Zakiya Shammout (January 1, 1945 - September 16, 2014) is one of the first female commando operations to carry out operations against the occupation, and she is the first Palestinian woman to give birth in Israeli prisons. Her husband, who is five months pregnant, was sentenced to 12 life imprisonment, while her husband was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1983, she was released and deported to Algeria and died there.

her family
Zakia Shamout, “Umm Masoud,” the wife of the militant Mahmoud Masoud, and the mother of each of the militants, Nadia, Dawlat, Hala, Masoud, Amer and Maryam Al-Soghra, who gave birth to her after her release from prison.

achievements
One of the most prominent guerrilla operations carried out by the fighter “Um Masoud” was placing a package inside a large watermelon weighing 20 kg, after emptying its contents. A Bulgarian in the occupied city of Haifa, which led to the killing of 15 Israelis and dozens of injuries, and another under a truck loaded with apples from the Golan that was being auctioned for the benefit of the occupation army, which resulted in dozens of Israeli deaths, but she was not arrested until years later with her husband, parents and family members, They were all imprisoned.

in prison
torture
Zakiya Shammout and her husband had not yet been sentenced, and the most violent methods of torture were applied to them, from the severity of the beatings and the electric shocks that Zakiya received in one of the rounds of torture, whose condition was not taken into account as a pregnant woman, who lost consciousness. The child that Zakia Shammout is carrying will come down from her stomach, deformed or dead.” On February 18, 1972, Zakia witnessed labor pains while she was in her solitary cell, and the door was not opened for her. It was exploding from under the cell door to the outside quickly like water, then the wardens opened the door, and Zakiya was lying on the ground, fainted, and the baby was still attached to her mother, and blood was flooding the place, so the prisoners, including Fatima Barnawi, Therese Halsa and Hanan Masih, cut the umbilical cord that was Connects between mother and child.

baby girl naming
In the Israeli prisons, Neve Terzia, was a Moroccan fighter named Nadia Bardali, who carried out a commando operation against the Jews in Tel Aviv, so she named the newborn after this fighter, Nadia.

release her
In 1985, there was talk of an exchange of Palestinian prisoners with the Israeli occupation, which refused to release Zakiya, so President Yasser Arafat stopped the operation, telling him: "We want her to die in prison." At that time, "Abu Ammar" refused to complete the exchange process in fulfillment of the sacrifices of the Palestinian fighter, Zakia, and negotiations continued through a mediator, until the occupation forced the release of Zakia after she had spent 15 years in the Israeli occupation prisons continuously.

After the release of Zakia and her husband Mahmoud during the exchange process, they moved to Tunisia to live there, until the targeting of the house of "Abu Ammar" in "Hammam al-Shatt", then they moved with family members to Algeria, where the three girls joined her, Dawlat, Hala and Nadia, while she was keen to remain The boys Massoud and Amer in occupied Palestine.

her death
The fighter Zakia Shammout died on September 16, 2014 at the age of 69, due to a terminal illness in the "Ain al-Naja" military hospital, and was buried in the Zeralda cemetery in Algeria.

 

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