Guerrilla Egypt called on Zainab Al Kafrawi, who died last Friday, at the age of 88, after a struggle with the disease.
Al-Kafrawi is the first woman to register her name in the lists of guerrillas and join the popular resistance in the war of tripartite aggression. She is also the icon of the women's popular resistance in Port Said, during the tripartite aggression on the valiant city in 1956, and she has an honorable history in the guerrilla records in the Canal Zone in general, and Port Said Governorate in particular .
Al-Kafrawi began her struggle at the age of fifteen, before the Anglo-French aggression against Egypt in the year 1954, and she was receiving military training at the Military Guard camp in Port Said, and after completing her training she headed to the Teachers Institute in Port Said, where she was studying at that time. She participated in a campaign to collect donations from citizens, to arm the Egyptian army, to protect the homeland from the occupation, under the slogan "Arming your country’s army and donating its weapons to you."
The late woman mentioned that her father had the greatest role in her upbringing and her endeavor to work within the Fedayeen Brigades, where he worked in the Arab Police Department in Port Said, and helped her a lot in joining the National Guard camp, to receive the necessary training, before joining the ranks of the Fedayeen, to participate in their guerrilla operations, as she helped Her father concealed important documents belonging to the police station, so that the British could not access these documents. Noting that she was trained to carry weapons before the war and aggression, she and her fellow students are at the teachers ’school, where she was from the National Guard at the Teachers’ Institute in Port Said, so they were trained in weapons. She explained in statements to the Egyptian website "The Seventh Day" before her death, that she participated in a number of tournaments in the face of the tripartite aggression and the British-French occupation of Port Said, most notably helping to hide the British officer "Mir House", the cousin of the Queen of Britain, where she played an important role in the process of Hide him after being kidnapped by the guerrillas.
And the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi honored Zainab El-Kafrawy, before heading her on the sidelines of the Ismailia Youth Conference, in 2017. The National Center for Women in Egypt, and a number of official bodies, also called her.