Tuesday 16/Sep/2025 – 02:21 PM
Today is a memory death Mujahid Omar Al -Mukhtar, Sheikh of the Mujahideen, who was executed in September 16, 1931, by the Italian occupation.
Omar Al -Mukhtar lived his life in a permanent jihad against Italian colonialism, and he won the admiration and appreciation of everyone even from some Italian colonists themselves.
The anniversary of the execution of Omar Al -Mukhtar, who resisted the occupation and received its respect
Omar Al -Mukhtar resisted Italy’s occupation of his country with fiercest and unprecedented hardness to his country until he was arrested and executed, and he rejected all the tempting offers and negotiations, and by colonialism to abandon the resistance.
Al -Mukhtar did not insult him in his jihad and did not surrender even with his old age until his arrest and his execution after a long journey in jihad against Al -Talian. On September 11, 1931, when he was heading with a small number of his Mujahideen comrades to visit the mausoleum of the companion Rua’id bin Thabet in the city of Al -Bayda, and they were witnessed by an Italian reconnaissance unit, and the Italian forces clashed with the Mukhtar and the wound of Omar The land, and it was known to him immediately one of the Libyan mercenary soldiers, and the Mukhtar was arrested.
Omar Al -Mukhtar was transferred to a building in the municipality of Sousse, and from there he was transferred to Benghazi prison with chains, and during his transfer to Benghazi he was fixed and calm like the firm mountain, answering the questions of some politicians in a steady and strong voice without any influence of the position in which he is.
Although Omar Al -Mukhtar was a disturbing romantic to Jarratani, commander of the occupation forces in Libya, but he testified to the Mukhtar with his family and his nobility, to the extent that Gratsiani described him in his memoirs entitled “The Quiet Cardiability” as the legend of time who survived thousands of times from death and families and became famous among the soldiers for holiness and respect because it is the thinner head and the beating heart of the Islamic Arab revolution in Barqa To fight with unique patience and skill, unparalleled years, and now he has fallen into our hands.
Omar Al -Mukhtar’s Special Court was held on September 15, 1931, and on that morning, a formal trial was tried in which the Mukhtar was sentenced to death by hanging. On September 16, the ruling was carried out before the families who were traumatized by his execution.
