Magda Obaid.. the daughter of the combative Jenin camp, who was martyred, Saima

Jenin

- A treacherous Israeli bullet hit the Palestinian mother, Magda Abdel-Fattah Obaid, causing her to fall as a martyr.

Um Zaidoun (63 years), as the people here know her, was one of 9 Palestinians who died as martyrs in a massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army on Thursday morning, after it targeted them with its fire during its storming of the camp.

While the trauma was still on their faces, the daughters of the martyred mother talked about her bloody last morning, when Saima woke up and performed the Duha prayer, then looked out for a moment from the balcony of her house located at the top of the camp, in order to survey the Israeli incursion, which took about 4 hours.

Her two daughters could hear the bullets but not see them.

Kifaya, the eldest of them, says, "Its density and randomness almost killed everyone who popped their heads, as happened with my mother."

The loving and sacrificing mother

On a visit to Al-Jazeera Net to the home of the martyr Magda, her daughter Kefaya Obaid, while looking with sorrow at a spot of blood that is still hot at the place of her martyrdom, mentions that her mother had prayed the morning prayer around nine in the morning, and as usual she looked out of the window of her room to know the news of the camp.

The daughter added, Kefaya, that she had hardly left the room when she heard her sister screaming, "My mother was injured," and she was crying and screaming at the top of her voice.

"I went back to her and saw her bleeding on the ground, repeating the shahada in a low voice," Kifaya added, while the smoke and dust caused by the bullet were still rising from the window.

She hastened enough to raise her mother's head and pressed on the site of her injury, trying to save her, but her attempt did not succeed, as the bullet hit her mother, so she called for the help of the ambulance crew, who tried their best, but she died.

"All this and the shooting did not stop," she said.

From the Hadera region inside occupied Palestine in 1948, the family of the martyr Magda Obaid descends, and 25 years ago she came to live in the Jenin camp from the neighboring town of Ya`bad.

Martyr Magda is a mother of 6 daughters and a single young man named Zaidoun, and despite her joy in his marriage and her quest for that throughout her life, she experienced great sadness after the death of one of her daughters last year.

She is loved by everyone, she meets them with a laughing face, as her daughters describe her, and she keeps praying, fasting and reading the Qur’an, and she was martyred while fasting, and she intended to fast the entire month of Rajab, despite her chronic illness with high blood pressure and diabetes.

However, "all she wished for in her life was to die a martyr," says Kifaya, who confirmed that she, too, was "satisfied" because she had become "the daughter of a martyr."

The martyr Magda Obaid, a mother of 6 daughters and one son, devoted her life to learning and living in dignity (Al-Jazeera)

I watched her testify on the phone

As for her friend, Umm Bakr Masaeed, she describes the martyr Magda as a "struggling" woman, and she made every effort and devoted her life to educating and raising her children.

Not far from the house of martyr Obaid, her companions and the women of the camp sat crying for her and talking about her sacrifices and her hard work to provide a decent living for her family.

Minutes before the martyrdom, her daughter, Faten, was preparing herself to go to work, before her sister called her via video technology and asked her about the conditions in the camp and whether the occupation army had withdrawn or not, only to tell her, seconds later, that her mother had been injured.

"I saw her breathe her last on the phone," Faten Obaid told Al-Jazeera Net, as she shed tears of grief for her mother.

Magda Obaid is the first woman martyr and the first mother to rise up in Jenin camp since the beginning of this year, since the escalation of events in Jenin camp a year and a half ago.

The number of Jenin martyrs last year reached 59, including 25 resistance fighters, which means that civilians are being directly targeted.

While, since the beginning of this year, 19 martyrs died in the city and its camp, out of 30 martyrs throughout the West Bank.

The incubator continues

In the massacre in which the martyr Magda Obaid was killed, Jenin also lost 8 young men, including 4 resistance fighters who were declared targeted by the occupation while they were in a house in the Jenin camp, and about 20 others were wounded, including 4 seriously.

The leader in the camp, Jamal Huwail, says that the occupation, during the most violent military attack on the camp since its invasion in 2002, sought to intimidate the people and create a gap between them and the resistance to isolate it from its supportive popular incubator.

"But they are failed endeavors," as the people, Hawail says, "increased their attachment to the resistance and their support and support for it with every incursion."

"The Jenin camp has baffled the world, its area is half a square kilometer and it has 400 martyrs and dozens of wounded and people with disabilities, but it continues to contain the resistance," Hawail added to Al-Jazeera Net.

In front of a spot of their martyred mother's blood on the rug of her room that did not dry up, Magda Obaid's daughters and her young grandchildren watched the last scene in her life, but without panic.