An Iranian thinker has hailed the role of Palestinian women throughout the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians lands saying they led the Israeli regime to the point of collapse.

In her speech at the webinar entitled “Role of Women in Islamic Resistance and Palestine”, Fatemeh Sadat Yahyapour, assistant professor at Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences from Urmia, Iran, praised the Palestinian women for being at the forefront of the national movements against Israeli occupation, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).
 
She said,”We can never forget the powerful role of women in the first Intifada and it must be memorialized in the collective memory given that it brought Israel to point of collapse.”
 
She referred to the Israeli mass arrest, deportation and execution of the Palestinian men in 1987 and said,” Palestinian women quickly stepped up to fill the subsequent void in leadership”
 
She also referred to the first boycott of the Israeli regime conducted by Palestinian women.
 
Iranian professor named Leila Khalid, Ahed Tamimi, Razan Alnjier and Shireen Abu Akleh for their impressive role in history of Palestinian women’s fight against Israeli regime.
 
Fatemeh Sadat Yahyapour addressed the Palestinian women saying,” You have looked into the face of death and you have made fool of it” expressing hope that the Palestinian lands will soon be free.
 
The 16^th edition of the al-Aqsa Storm webinars as held by World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought was held on Wednesday as a number of female activists and thinkers expressed their views on the role of Palestinian women in more than seven decades of fight against occupation in the Palestinian lands.
 
A number of Muslim thinkers, intellectuals and political and religious figures from across the world of Islam exchanged views on the different aspects of the operation Al-Aqsa Storm and resistance axis during the past 15 webinars held since the outbreak of Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza.