Report about activities organized by the Women’s Hope League, a branch of the Bethlehem Orphan Care Society, including the participation of female students belonging to Hamas
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Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian Preventive Security Headquarters
Bethlehem
To brother Colonel Jibril Rajoub [at that time head of PPS for the West Bank], may Allah preserve him
Blessings of the revolution
In re: The Women’s Hope League1
This organization has increased its activities among women and female high school and university students and holds regular religious and political meetings every Monday and Wednesday at the Salah al-Din mosque [where the headquarters of the Bethlehem Orphan Care Society are located].
We noticed that female activists of the Islamic Block [Hamas’ student organization] go there [to the meetings], especially Ruwieda [Mousa Muhammad] Hamidan [Adm] [Hamas activist, wife of Hamas activist ‘Abdallah Adm].
For your information, the Women’s Hope League has begin supervising some of the summer centers [camps] which the Hamas movement used to supervise under cover of the League.2
For your information, the League is a branch of the [ Bethlehem] Orphan Care Society.
[Follow-up of] the matter [is given over to] your decision.
Hamdi Khaled, Majed Faraj [PPS officers in Bethlehem]
[Signature]
1. A women’s association founded by the Bethlehem Orphan Care Society in 1998, for the purpose of aiding women with social and learning-related activities. According to Palestinian Preventive Security documents, it is another Hamas da’wah institution in every respect.
2. At the summer camps supervised by the League, Palestinian youth are inculcated with pro-terrorism propaganda and are taught hatred, sometimes with the accompaniment of semi-military training.
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