They cook food inside their homes daily for the participants in the popular events
“Less Duty” .. “Beta” women’s initiative in support of the youth of Jabal Sobeih
Pitta women spend long hours preparing large quantities of food.
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Women «Pita» participate in the preparation of food.
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With vigor and activity, the Palestinian woman, Ghada Abu Hamdan, a resident of the town of Beita in the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, spends long hours preparing large quantities of different meals, with the help of her friends Amal and Maryam Bani Shamsa, and a group of Beta women.
These large quantities of meals are distributed to young people and participants in the activities of the popular resistance, to stave off settlements from their town and to evacuate the outpost of “Avitar”, from the top of Sabeeh Mountain, in the middle of Beita.
A group of women from the town of Beita launched the “Less Duty” initiative, in support of the Al-Mourabit youth, who refused to settle on their lands, and demanded the departure of the residents of the “Avitar” settlement.
logistical support
"Emirates Today" met the supervisor of the "Less Duty" initiative, Ghada Abu Hamdan, and the women participating in the women's initiative, who met on one idea, as they spend most of their time in the kitchen of the Great Beta Hall, to prepare and cook many types of lunches, in preparation for serving them to the residents of Beta And the youth participating in the activities of defending the lands of the town and Jabal Sabih.
Abu Hamdan explains that the aim of the “Less Duty” initiative is to support the youth participating in the popular resistance and night confusion in the town of Beita, and to provide logistical support to them, to ensure the continuation of activities to defend the mountain lands and liberate them from the settlement outpost.
She pointed out that the idea of "the least duty" began with the publication by a group of Beta women, an initiative to cook food indoors and serve it to the youth of the mountain, adding: "My friends and I, headed by (Amal) and (Maryam) rushed to embrace the idea, and work to spread it more widely, For the largest number of women to join the initiative.”
The supervisor of the “Less Duty” initiative says: “The initiative was launched by holding a meeting for women to discuss the mechanism of implementing the idea. More than 80 women and girls from Beta residents attended. The agreement was to prepare meals the next day, and it was Friday, when thousands of young men from Beta and the neighboring villages and cities in Qalqilya and Salfit, and we had to honor the town’s youth and its guests, to continue the activities of the popular resistance.”
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The first meal prepared by women of “less duty” in their homes after the first meeting was “brides”, which is grilled minced meat inside bread, with the addition of tomatoes, hot green peppers and onions, where the number of meals prepared by women reached 4000 meals, all distributed among Participants in the popular resistance activities on Friday.
The supervisor of the "Less Duty" initiative says: "The idea started by cooking food in the kitchens of our homes, but due to the increase in the number of women participating, and the increase in the number of meals we prepare, my friend Amal Bani Shamsa donated to prepare food in the great Beta hall owned by her family."
And she added: "Immediately we started work inside the hall, where we meet daily inside to prepare a menu for the next day, and cook lunches with the participation of the women and girls of the town, and after agreeing on the type of meals, we go on a daily basis to the markets and shops, to buy the foodstuffs and supplies we need in cooking.”
Abu Hamdan clarifies that the initiative is personal and individual, as it did not receive support from any party or institution. Women “less duty” collect donations from each other, in addition to the contribution of shop owners, and what women and families donate in the town of Beita, whether with money or by providing the necessary foodstuffs .
women in the field
After the women of the “Less Duty” initiative cook copious quantities of meals, as part of their personal initiative, they are also responsible for delivering them individually to where the youth of the popular resistance and night confusion are located, in the square and square of confrontation.
Abu Hamdan says: "The places where the youth of the Popular Resistance are located are somewhat far from our homes, so after preparing meals and providing water and all the needs, we head in our personal cars to those places, so that the youth unit receives meals, to distribute them to the participants in the popular events."
She points out that on Friday, meals are cooked up to 4,000 meals, as the number of participants is high from the villages of Nablus and other cities in the West Bank, and on other days of the week, food is prepared for the "rubber-tire" unit, whose young people work from morning until night.
Beta women produce on a daily basis many daily meals for the youth of Jabal Subaih, most notably maqluba, turnips, brides, and pastries, in addition to meat and chicken meals in the oven and kabsa.
On the other hand, Amal Bani Shamsa, one of the supervisors in the “Less Duty” initiative, confirms that the women’s initiative proves that the women of Beta and Palestine have the ability to properly manage battles and crises, and are able to exist in the arenas and fields of confrontation.
Bani Shamsa says that "the youth of the popular resistance in our home are our children and our brothers, and they sacrificed themselves in order to defend the soil of the homeland and the land of our home, and it is our duty as women to support them and stand by them in all ways and ways."
She added, “The interaction of the Beta women with the (Less Duty) initiative is very large, as we notice the collective spirit of the participating women who accompany their daughters to help us prepare and cook meals, and we receive daily calls from the town’s women, to provide all we need and the necessary materials and support, To implement our initiative on a daily basis.”
The aim of the “Less Duty” initiative is to support the youth participating in the popular resistance and night confusion in the town of Beita, and to provide them with logistical support, to ensure the continuation of activities to defend the mountain lands and liberate them from the settlement outpost.
The initiative is personal and individual, as it did not receive support from any party or institution. Women of “less duty” collect donations from each other, in addition to the contribution of shop owners, and what women and families donate in the town of Beta, whether with money or by providing the necessary foodstuffs.
The first meal prepared by the women of the “lesser duty” in their homes after the first meeting was the “brides.” The number of meals prepared by the women reached 4,000, all of which were distributed to the participants in the popular resistance activities on Friday.
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