(1)
Some fighters pass away quietly, without making noise, their story is known only to a few around them. The story may not carry remarkable events, but it reflects the amazing faith of people who only know giving, Fatima is one of them.
In Jerusalem, the story begins in 1939. Fatima is born to a Nigerian father and a Palestinian mother, with pure African brown features. Not much time passes after her birth until her parents' plans are confused, with the catastrophe that befell the nation in 1948.
Her father is horrified by surprise. He sends her mother to the camp to reassure her. The parents submit to the stubbornness of their two-year-old daughter, Fatima. The whole family decides to return and settle together in Jerusalem again.
Fatima's mother flees with her children: two boys and two girls, and the destination is a refugee camp in Jordan, while the father joins the warriors in Jerusalem, as part of the great revolution that has lost its strength and equipment years after its outbreak.
The camp is located next to the Roman amphitheater, and most of it is inside a cave. Fatima, at the age of nine, cannot accept the refugee status in her young mind. She says to herself: Why should I live in a cave when our house is in Jerusalem?!
Her mind does not comprehend the war and what is happening in it. She repeatedly hears her mother that she wants to return to their home in Jerusalem, but her mother tells her that the time has not come yet.
She escapes from the camp one day and innocently asks the children about the whereabouts of the buses. She joins the bus heading to Jerusalem, and because the relations between the people of the two countries are interdependent, she did not find it difficult for those on the bus to be convinced of the sincerity of her statement that she was going to her father.
Her father is horrified by surprise, and he sends her mother to the camp to reassure her. The parents submit to the stubbornness of their two-year-old daughter, Fatima, and the whole family decides to return and settle together in Jerusalem again.
(2)
We are in 1956, Fatima learns nursing and works in it, before she has the opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia as a nurse to provide her family with a better source of income, but she did not stay there for more than two years, then she returns to the city of Qalqilah in Palestine, to work there as a nurse for 8 years, until A new calamity befalls.
In 1967, the Zionists attacked the village of Qalqilah, destroyed the water wells, demolished many houses, and turned the village upside down, forcing many of it to be displaced, including Fatima.
The nurse's role is no longer enough to satisfy her, and she decides to engage in direct battles with the enemy. During her work in the Evangelical Hospital in Nablus, she gets to know a few girls who form a resistance group known as (Vanguards of Revenge).
The group decides that its work in the beginning is to help the Egyptian soldiers who came to Palestine to help confront the Zionists. Palestine and return to Egypt.
The group succeeds in their mission, until they are exposed, and the hospital director expels them, but one of the strange paradoxes of fate is the fall of Nablus in the hands of the Zionists, so Fatima decides to stay and help treat the injured, even after the decision to expel her from the hospital.
(3)
All news about Nablus is cut off because of the Zionist attack, so that Fatima's family thinks that she was martyred in the military attacks.
She succeeds in escaping, then returns to Jerusalem, to the pleasant surprise of her family that she is still alive, but her return was the key to a new beginning of the resistance.
She knows that her sister, Ihsan, has joined the resistance movement (Fatah), and she decides to join it to compensate for the experience of (Vanguards of Revenge), and the movement's decision, several days after its joining, is to carry out 7 commando operations in separate places in pursuit of a surprise strike against the enemy on multiple fronts, and the choice falls on Fatima and her sister Ihsan to detonate Zion cinema.
She actually arrives at the cinema with her sister and another person named Muhammad Shahrour, on the day of showing a film about the Zionists' victory in the Six-Day War.
She puts the bag of explosives under one of the seats, tries to leave the place, but the security man prevents her. She pretends that she needs to go to a pharmacy because she is in severe pain. She succeeds in getting out, only to hear a huge explosion a few minutes later. She rejoices and her heart shakes with the euphoria of victory.
There is a surprise after a few hours, news of the failure of the operation, her mind is about to explode, how is this when she herself heard the sound of the explosion?!
Then she goes back to the hospital where she works, at the same time, and unfortunately for her, a young man goes to her house carrying a message from Yasser Arafat, telling her that the operation failed, and that she should leave the house quickly, and because he was under surveillance, the Zionists arrested him and Fatima herself.
Difficult years pass for Fatima in prison, during which her mother dies, until a day comes when alarm sirens sound inside the prison, and the prisoners begin to cover the windows with blankets, and she does not understand what is happening, until she finds a Jewish soldier who says to her: “You betrayed us while we were fasting.”
(4)
In the investigation office, Fatima understood the secret, as she placed the bag under her chair, but the bag hit the foot of an American journalist, who was sitting behind her by chance.
Fatima is being tried after it became the talk of the Hebrew press, which fabricated false confessions of her remorse and attributed it to her, and that she was storing a huge arsenal of weapons and equipment with her team, and other accusations, as a result of which she underwent 7 trial sessions that ended with a life sentence.
Inside the prison, Fatima faces different and strange types of suffering, and she finds herself in the company of a number of Jewish criminal prisoners who entered the prison on charges of theft, and others on immoral charges.
(5)
Difficult years pass for Fatima in prison, during which her mother dies, until a day comes when the alarm sirens sound inside the prison, and the prisoners begin to cover the windows with blankets, and she does not understand what is happening, until she finds a Jewish soldier who says to her: "You betrayed us while we were fasting."
She did not understand what had happened until the soldiers ordered her to kneel on the ground with the Arab female prisoners, and she heard the sentence echoed by everyone that the Egyptians had betrayed the Jews while they were fasting, only to learn that the war of liberation had broken out, and that the Egyptian army had succeeded in crossing the Suez Canal.
Prisons turn into shelters for Jews to escape from Egyptian planes.
The years of imprisonment are long and bitter, until she is released in the eleventh month of 1977 as part of a prisoner exchange deal after more than 11 years in the occupation prisons, but Fatima decides to travel to Lebanon and work as a nurse with the Lebanese fighters in the Lebanese Bekaa until 1983.
Then she returns to Palestine at the request of Yasser Arafat to form the first women's police unit in Gaza in 1994, and she was the leader over them. The strength of the unit was 30 women, but they faced some intransigence at the beginning because many of the people of Gaza were not convinced that a woman would be a policeman for them.
After years of police service, it was decided to leave all forms of political work and police life and travel to live in Egypt, where Fatima Bernawi would remain until her death on November 3 of 2022 in Palestine Hospital in Egypt after a long march of confrontations.