Ibe Palikuka

Ibe Palikuqi (, ) was a Yugoslav partisan and a member of the communist resistance in Vardar Macedonia. She is one of the seven partisans from Macedonia who have been declared national heroes of Yugoslavia and one of the youngest national heroes in Yugoslavia.

Early life Ibe Palikuqi was born in Debar, North Macedonia (former Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in 1927 to a middle-class Muslim family that held anti-fascist sentiments. Her father was a hodža, a Muslim priest, and her brother Eshtref was the first to join the liberation movement.

Resistance activity In 1941, Debar was captured and occupied by Italian fascists. In 1942, at the age of fifteen, Ibe joined the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and began working as a courier who carried letters, distributed leaflets, and transported illegal immigrants.

In 1943, she was accepted into the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ)

Death On September 20, 1944, on the outskirts of Kičevo, Ibe Palikuqi was fatally wounded in a battle against the Balli Kombëtar. After being surrounded by the Ballists and cut off from a route of retreat, Ibe Palikuqi and Zenal Paci lead a charge through the siege. After reaching the top of a hill, Ibe was shot and on September 22, two days later, succumbed to her wounds in Šutovo, Kičevo.