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Ayat al-Akhras (20 February 1985 – 29 March 2002) was the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber who, at age 17, killed herself and two Israeli civilians on March 29, 2002, by detonating explosives belted to her body. The killings gained widespread international attention due to Ayat's age and gender and the fact that one of the ...
Suicide bomber was an Arab Israeli citizen. Hamas claimed responsibility. [63] Beit Lid junction bombing: September 9, 2001: Near Netanya: 0: 11: Hamas claimed responsibility. [64] [65] Kibbutz Shluhot bombing: October 7, 2001: Kibbutz Shluhot: 1: 0: Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. [30] [66] Kibbutz Be'eri Suicide Bombing ...
Wafa Idris (Arabic: وفاء إدريس 1975 – January 27, 2002), a Palestinian Red Crescent volunteer, was the first female suicide bomber in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She killed herself while committing the Jaffa Street bombing. At the time of her suicide, Idris was a 28-year-old, divorcee, and lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in ...
Suicide bombers' families often receive substantial cash payments, ranging from $1,000 to several thousand dollars, from organizations such as Hamas or the PIJ, and occasionally from external supporters. [86] In 2002, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein reportedly offered up to $25,000 to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. [93]
A U.S. Navy servicewoman poses as a captured female suicide bomber during the OPFOR exercise in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Female suicide bombers are women who intend to do suicide attack, wherein the bomber kills herself while simultaneously killing targeted people. Suicide bombers are normally viewed as male political radicals but since the 1960s ...
She was the eighth Palestinian female suicide bomber, but only the second to have left behind children. [2] Riyashi was the first female suicide bomber sent by Hamas whose spiritual leader at the time, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin had initially objected to the involvement of women in such actions, altering this position shortly before his assassination ...
A Palestinian woman has described her family’s perilous journey to reach safety in Egypt, ... Her mother, Maram, 35, was later killed in a bomb. Her best friend Baraa Abu Elaish, 26 was killed ...
Fatma Omar An-Najar (died November 23, 2006) was a Palestinian suicide bomber who lived in the Gaza Strip. On November 23, 2006, she detonated explosives she was wearing on a belt, and injured several Israeli soldiers near Beit Lahia and the Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombing. Her family said she was 64 ...