Last Saturday, the Palestinian militant Theresa Helsa, an activist in the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization and "responsible for the file of the wounded of the revolution" in the organization, and the guerrilla whose name was associated with the Lod operation in which the Israeli plane (Sabina) was hijacked on May 8, 1972, were expelled with the aim of exchanging its passengers with Palestinian prisoners. In the Israeli occupation prisons at the time, which ended in raiding the plane, killing and capturing the hijackers, Helsa shot the leader of the attacking force at the time, Benjamin Netanyahu, and an Israeli soldier stabbed Helsa in her shoulder, and she was arrested.

Teresa Helsa was born to a Palestinian Christian family in Acre, and participated in the beginnings of her entry into the public sphere to follow the educational activities of the Communist Party, then was influenced by "Nasserism" and Arab nationalist thought through her listening to "Voice of the Arabs" radio, and then was particularly affected by the arrest of what was called " Acre Group »Palestinian resistance at sea, torture and killing of its members, which transferred it from the intellectual field to direct work, and she was still not twenty years old at the time, she belonged to a Palestinian armed group, and fled to the West Bank, and from there to Lebanon, where she received training Militarily there.

Helsa was arrested after an Israeli commando group, which included Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu (who later headed the Israeli government), attacked the plane disguised as Red Cross personnel, after the hijackers agreed to provide the International Relief and Relief Agency with fuel and passengers. And they killed my colleague, Helsa Ali Taha Abu Sneina, and Abdulaziz Zakaria Al-Atrash, while Helsa clashed with them until she was captured, and her colleague Rima Issa Tanious, so they went to trial, and the ruling against the first prison sentence was two sentences and 40 years (220 years), and the ruling against the second life imprisonment, where she spent Helsa 10 years old T was sentenced to prison terms, then released in a prisoner exchange in 1984.

Teresa Helsa was known in the media as "the Palestinian who shot Netanyahu", where it was reported in press accounts that she had targeted Netanyahu with a bullet during the operation that struck him in the shoulder, and an Israeli version did not deny or confirm this, but it is certain that an Israeli soldier stabbed Helsa by Alsunke (Bayonet gun) on her shoulder, after the operation ended and while she was being taken to prison in revenge.

Helsa went out of Israeli prisons to reside in Jordan, where Israel stipulated that she should not enter the Palestinian territories until her death, and her adherence to returning to Acre almost made it impossible for the prisoner exchange deal to fail, had it not been for the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to intervene to persuade her, reminding her that her decision would affect her colleagues. Helsa has not reported in press interviews.

After her departure, Helsa continued to affirm its adherence to its convictions and belief in the Palestinian cause, and took over the file of care for the wounded in the Palestine Liberation Organization, and also participated in all awareness efforts and intellectual seminars.

Teresa Helsa asserted her national and national identity, and always considered her participation as an Arab Christian in the Palestinian struggle a confirmation of this identity, and revealed in a television interview months before her departure that she “did not know that the poet Tawfiq Ziyad Muslim was only a religion four months ago, despite being a close friend of the family.”

Among the funniest positions that were echoed by Helsa, is her belief until she joined the Palestinian armed action that (Abu Amar) is a person, and (Yasser Arafat) another, and she was proud of the narration of this extremism as an indication of her taking the path of the Palestinian struggle, and she still did not endure after years of youth and innocence.

- Until she joined the Palestinian armed action, I thought that (Abu Amar) was one, and (Yasser Arafat) another.

Teresa Helsa asserted her national and national identity and always considered her participation as an Arab Christian in the Palestinian struggle as confirmation of this identity.