Al Jazeera Net interviews the companion of the trail of Abdel Aziz Al-Rantissi.. He was a supporter of women keen to honor her and fulfill her rights.

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Just as he was distinguished by his "charisma", especially in his life, Dr. Abdel Aziz Al-Rantissi did not want to leave this life in an ordinary way. He hated "ordinary death", and chose himself the way he preferred and his memory was immortalized in both worlds;

It is the death of a martyr by a missile from an Israeli helicopter.

When a foreign journalist asked Dr. Rantisi, prior to his failed assassination attempt in mid-2003, were you afraid of death?

He did not hesitate to answer, "It's death, whether it's an Apache (an Israeli helicopter, an American made) or a heart attack, and I prefer the Apache."

About 10 months have passed since that failed attempt, which was one of four assassination attempts he was subjected to, before Rantisi was martyred, the way he wanted, as an Israeli helicopter targeted him with several missiles on the evening of April 17, 2004.

And before the huge sound of these missiles, which shook throughout Gaza City, Dr. Al-Rantissi was just leaving his house, chanting a stanza: "My Lord, let me enter Paradise. This is the most I wish."

His wife, Rasha Al-Adlouni, nicknamed "Umm Muhammad", told Al Jazeera Net, "Only 7 minutes later, the explosion occurred and the news of the doctor's assassination spread, so I performed ablution and prayed dinner, and I wore my best clothes, and I was one of the people who consoled people, and thank God for his grace and grace."

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Dr. Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi was born on October 23, 1947 in the town of Yibna inside occupied Palestine. He was an infant when the Nakba occurred in 1948. He was the second of 7 male siblings of his family that had to migrate and seek refuge in a refugee camp in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Gaza.

Al-Rantissi joined the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and tasted the bitterness of orphanhood at the death of his father when he was at the beginning of secondary school, which he completed in 1965, to travel to Egypt and enroll in the Faculty of Medicine of Alexandria University, from which he graduated in 1972, and returned to it again and obtained a degree He has a master’s degree in pediatrics, and was appointed in 1976 as a doctor at Nasser Governmental Hospital in Khan Yunis, where he gained wide fame as a skilled doctor, perfecting his profession and taking into account the conditions of the poor.

In 1973, Al-Rantissi married Rasha Al-Adlouni, who was born in 1955. She came from a refugee family from Jaffa, and they had 6 children (4 daughters and two sons).

The 18th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Assad #Palestine,

Dr. Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi, 4/17/2004 , is approaching

If the time will pass, then it would be better if it was a certificate.

I'd rather die in Apache pic.twitter.com/453T4dq80C

- Arkan (@ar2aan) April 13, 2022

Al-Rantisi occupied several positions in public work. He enjoyed great activity and demonstrated high leadership skills. He was a member of the administrative board of the "Islamic Council", an association founded by the martyr Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in the seventies of the last century, and a member of the Arab Medical Association (representing the Doctors Syndicate in Gaza at that time).

Al-Rantissi remained a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza, which was also founded by Sheikh Yassin in 1978, until he submitted his resignation before his assassination to devote himself to his organizational duties as leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, succeeding Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel at the dawn of March 22, 2004 .

Al-Rantisi, Sheikh Yassin, participated in the founding of Hamas in 1987, and he underwent repeated experiences of detention in Israeli prisons and the Palestinian Authority, and emerged as a spokesman for the deportees to Marj al-Zohour in southern Lebanon in 1992.

This is not all about Al-Rantissi's life, which is full of many exciting stations and details, which his wife Umm Muhammad tells in her private interview with "Al-Jazeera Net" on the 18th anniversary of his assassination.

Here is an interview with her:

Rasha Al-Adlouni: The memory of Rantisi will not be forgotten as long as I live, and I still see the radiant light from his face in the last moments (Al-Jazeera)

I can describe this great personality as “the human leader.” Just as he was a great leader who fought against the enemy, he was, on the other hand, a merciful human being, righteous to his mother, taking care of his family, and upholding his kinship. His daughters, he is keen to honor and pamper them before and after their marriage, in a manner that does not conflict with proper upbringing.

And with me as a wife, he was the best Muslim man who applied the honorable Prophetic hadith, “You are the best of you to his family, and I am the best of you to my family.” And he shares the work with me in the kitchen and is satisfied with the food available.

He was a supporter of women, keen to honor her and fulfill her rights.

He was also a sensitive poet, and he wrote poems about love for the homeland and children, and poetry is his way inside the prison camps to communicate and express his feelings.

Abu Muhammad was and still is a “beacon” for me. Indeed, he is my role model after the Messenger, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and I still derive strength and determination from his memory and determination, whether as a mother to his children, or in my organizational and societal activity.

Likewise, he is the “human doctor”, and he has many stories and situations during his work as a doctor, he does not hesitate to serve his people, does not close a door in the face of a sick person, day or night, and takes the initiative to provide free treatment and medicine to those who cannot.

Qatayef Ramadan from the martyr Dr. Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi ♥️ pic.twitter.com/TEL1Cpb4rg

— ﮼Ahmed Al-Maqadma |

🇵🇸 ✪ (@maqadema) April 11, 2022

His presence at home was “moments”, but it was full of love and tenderness, he was keen to show all the attention to us as a family, asking, following up and reassuring, his day started at 8 am, and he returned with the early hours of dawn, moving throughout the day between his lectures at the Islamic University And organizational meetings and press interviews, and he rarely eats lunch with us, does not turn off the phone and does not refuse anyone a request.

He was a "mass of activity", keen to follow up on the stationed on the border, and after all these burdens during the day, he did not leave the night prayer, as he was a memorizer of the Book of God, which was completed inside the prisons of the enemy.

Abdulaziz Al-Rantisi, one of the founders of the movement #Hamas (he was martyred by an Israeli Apache missile in 2004) threatens the Israeli entity with the missiles of the #QassamBrigades that will hit all the occupied cities..and the

promise is fulfilled..#Al-Qassam shakes the usurping entity in every inch of the occupied land of #Palestine..# Sword_of_Quds # Jerusalem is rising up # Gaza is resisting pic.twitter.com/iUDCYJOuz5

- Jaber Al-Harmi (@jaberalharmi) May 12, 2021

The first of these experiences was for a short period in 1983 when he refused to pay the tax to the occupation authorities, and in early 1988 he spent 21 days in prison after participating in the founding of Hamas, before the occupation authorities re-arrested him at the end of the same year to spend about two and a half years on charges of participating in the activities of the Intifada. The first (1987-1993), and a few months after his release in September 1990, he was arrested again for about a year.

Dr. Martyr spent more than 8 years of his life inside the prisons of the occupation, and he was one of the most prominent deportees to southern Lebanon in 1992. They were stationed in the Marj al-Zohour area, in refusal of the deportation decision. I transferred him to arrest immediately, and he spent in prisons until his liberation in 1997.

These bitter experiences were not easy for me as a wife, but my belief in God first, and in the path that Abu Muhammad follows, and that it is the path of truth, helped me to perform my role in the house, and to make every effort so that my children would not be affected by their father’s long and repeated absence, and I used to see myself as a “striving.” at home.

Umm Muhammad Al-Rantisi is active in organizational and societal tasks and is preparing to obtain a doctorate degree (Al-Jazeera)

Besides your family role, did you have organizational duties at the time?

I had a great understanding at an early stage of the approach of the Muslim Brotherhood to which Abu Muhammad belonged during his master’s studies in Egypt, but my joining the organization was in 1990, and I became active in women’s organizations affiliated with the organization, and because of my closeness to Dr. Rantisi as a wife who benefited greatly from his experiences, expertise, and dedication At work, and this encouraged me to invest my time, I joined the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion at the Islamic University in 1999, and after my bachelor’s degree I obtained a master’s degree, and I am currently preparing to study for a doctorate.

Dr. Abu Muhammad tasted the bitterness of political detention in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority 3 times between 1998 and 2000, the first of which was a few months after his release from the prisons of the occupation, during which he spent about a year and a half in the prisons of the Authority, then the matter was repeated, until he decided in his last arrest He went on an open hunger strike, and was liberated after security headquarters in Gaza were bombed following the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000.

The doctor had a position recorded for him, in which he ended the political detention forever, when he made a decision to confront and refused to surrender himself, during an attempt by a security force affiliated with the authority to arrest him in 2002, and fired towards the house, and the neighbors supported him and gathered around the house, and the attempt failed.

I am ready to be in prison until the end of my life, so long as they do not allow the arrest of a single fighter |

Martyr Dr. Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi, on security coordination and the arrest of the resistance fighters - from his interview with Al-Jazeera on April 4, 2001.# Tell me about_Palestine pic.twitter.com/ofvv4iRVEZ

— The Palestinian Archive Palestinian Archive (@palestinian_the) December 14, 2021

Dr. Al-Rantissi has a saying that he constantly repeats, “I will not rest until the last prisoner is freed from the prisons of the occupation.” Prisoners, who accompanied him during periods of detention, keen to see him constantly.

Because of his belief in this just human cause, fate decided to link him with them forever, and his martyrdom was on the "Palestinian Prisoner's Day", which falls on April 17.

16 years since the martyrdom of a lion from the lion of the nation, Abdulaziz Al-Rantisi, he was alive and dead, and he compensated the nation with goodness # Al-Haq_stronger_and victorious pic.twitter.com/BfwhSbyfXb

— Azza El-Garf (@AzzaElGarf) April 17, 2020

His memory will not be forgotten by me as long as I live, and I still see the radiant light from his face in the last moments before his assassination, and he is chanting, “Your Lord will let me enter Paradise. This is the most I wish.” With part of his savings after he resigned from his work at the Islamic University to devote himself to leading the movement, he kept a part to pay off his debts from the marriage of our son Muhammad, and another part to the marriage of our son Ahmed, and he said at the time, "This is how I will leave the world, neither for me nor for me."

And what I really wish for God to gather me in heaven.

The sixteenth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. "# Abdelaziz_Rantissi", a leader of the Hamas movement pic.twitter.com/sMah6zJ5jh

— Mohamed Nasser (@M_nasseraly) April 17, 2020