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Democratic Palestine : 32 (ص 13)

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Women on the Frontline
One of the most prominent feature of
the current Palestinian uprising is its
comprehensiveness, geographically and
demographically. The confrontations
with the occupation forces have ex-
panded to all cities, villages and camps
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
massive participation of women,
children, elderly, youth and men, from
all sectors of the Palestinian society, is
a logical result of the fact that Zionist
terrorism and suppression has affected
all our people.
The intifada which began on
December 8, 1987, has come to end the
suffering and oppression which
Palestinians have endured for over 20
years. Naturally it is the Palestinian
women who have been the most af-
fected by the occupation. Added to
their social oppression was a new op-
pression. This explains their broad par-
ticipation in the Palestinian national
struggle and outstanding role in the in-
tifada. This role is manifested on all
levels. The past 15 months of daily
struggle against the Zionist occupation
have borne witness to the prominent
role of women to the point that the
development of their role has become
an important feature of the intifada.
POLITICAL MATURITY
Women have been involved in the
political and military fields of the
struggle since the beginning of the cen-
tury. They have accumulated much ex-
perience from demonstrations, mar-
ches, political statements, pamphlets,
lectures, slogan-writing on the walls,
military work and armed struggle.
They have intensified their political
activities over the last 15 months. Un-
doubtedly, the most significant aspect
is their level of political awareness and
maturity, as well as their adherence to
the political organizations in the oc-
cupied territories, in addition to active
participation in the militant struggle.
To emphasize the degree of women’s
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political awareness and consciousness,
it is enough to point out the qualitative
contribution made by the women’s sec-
tor in the occupied territories. As the
intifada entered its second year, the
women’s organizations held a series of
meetings to address the continuation,
escalation and consolidation of the in-
tifada. They concluded that reinforcing
national unity is one of the major
means of consolidating the intifada,
and therefore decided to unify all the
women’s organizations and establish
the Higher Women’s Council, thus
providing a model for unifying all mass
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Organizations and unions in confron-
ting the occupation.
The Higher Women’s Council issued
its founding statement on December 1,
1988. In this statement, the Palestinian
women reasserted that they welcomed
the PNC’s decisions, specifically the
Declaration of Independence and the
establishment of an _ independent
Palestinian state. They also declared
their adherence to the UNL calls. They
called for continuing the struggle and
for the convening of a fully empowered
international peace conference with the
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