Granny's photo.
Posted on 11/23/2006 11:47:13 AM PST by Nachum
A Palestinian grandmother blew herself up in the Gaza Strip, lightly wounding three Israeli soldiers, in the first suicide attack claimed by Hamas in almost two years.
The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57, approaching troops operating to curb daily rocket attacks, the army said.
"Troops saw a woman approaching them in a suspicious manner and identified her carrying an explosive device," a spokeswoman said of the incident in the northern town of Jabaliya.
"They then threw a stun grenade in her direction but she managed to blow herself up," the spokeswoman said, adding that three soldiers were lightly hurt.
Within minutes the armed wing of the Hamas claimed the bombing. This was the Islamist group's first suicide attack since January 2005, when a bomber wounded seven Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
"The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades claims the martyr operation carried out by Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, aged 57, in the middle of a group of Zionist soldiers," an online statement said.
The bloody operation came two weeks after the radical faction threatened to resume suicide bombings in response to a botched Israeli shelling in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun that left 19 Palestinians, mostly women and children, dead.
Another seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the northern part of the volatile territory Thursday, as Gaza militants launched seven rockets into the Jewish state, one of which struck a house in a southern kibbutz.
Relatives said Najar had seven sons and two daughters, plus some 41 grandchildren, and that they were proud of her "martyrdom", which daughter Azhar said was a direct response to the Beit Hanun shelling.
"She did this operation in response to the Beit Hanun massacre. She was very moved by what happened," said Azhar, speaking from home in Jabaliya where relatives came to congratulate Najar's nearest and dearest.
Azhar also said her mother had taken part in a daring rescue operation, staged by Palestinian mothers and wives, who acted as human shields to free more than a dozen gunmen holed up in a Beit Hanun mosque on November 3.
Zuheir, Najar's 20-year-old son, told AFP from the family home: "We are really happy. It's a big operation. She told us last night that she would do a suicide operation. She prepared her clothes for that operation and we are proud.
"'I don't want anything, only to die a martyr.' That's what she said."
Faced with Hamas rocket attacks, Israeli ministers only Wednesday authorized more operations against the Islamists, following a sweeping campaign of arrests and bombings begun in late June after the group abducted a soldier.
Hamas heads the Western-boycotted Palestinian government, whose armed wing has claimed two recent deadly rocket attacks on Israel, and which has withstood massive pressure to recognize Israel and formally renounce violence.
Najar was the second Palestinian woman to blow herself up in the northern Gaza this month, following a November 6 attack claimed by Islamic Jihad.
The seven Palestinians, including at least four militants, were killed and seven Israeli soldiers wounded Thursday, as the military pressed a ground and air assault to curb the constant menace of rocket fire.
Three of the militants were from the radical Popular Resistance Committees, one of three groups to claim the June 25 capture of the Israeli soldier, and died in an air strike against their car in Beit Hanun.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike against militants wanted in connection with rocket attacks and anti-tank fire.
One Palestinian was killed as Israeli artillery fired in response to the suicide attack, and three others, including a militant from the radical Islamic Jihad movement, were killed by ground fire.
Rocket attacks have become a near daily event since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 after a 38-year occupation, frequently inaccurate but managing to kill two civilians in the past eight days.
Israel has openly admitted being unable to completely stop the rocket fire, and more than 300 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the military launched a massive counter-offensive in late June.
This action is part of Arafat's legacy? Must make Jimmy Carter real proud of his latest novel!
"The mother of nine and grandmother of 41..."
Before long it will sink in with our military that playing tit for tat rifle battle will not cut it, in the long, long run.
We must heed the same advice.
"The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 at the age of 57..."
This simple statement fills me with greater fear than all the IEDs thay have released so far.
No, no point in praying for someone to go to hell. It's in God's hands now. His will is just.
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Something to warm the hearts of grandchildren everywhere.
There is much more to these groups than meets the eyes of the MSM:
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A top Hamas enforcer in Gaza accused of spearheading rocket attacks against Israel died in an Israeli airstrike Thursday, Palestinian hospital officials and group members said.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike against the Popular Resistance Committees training camp in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, saying militants there were planning a large-scale attack on Israel.
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Abu Samhadana graduated from a military school in then-communist East Germany in 1988. He formed the Popular Resistance Committees, a violent group consisting of militants from various factions, after the latest Palestinian uprising broke out in 2000.
http://wcbs880.com/pages/44417.php?contentType=4&contentId=154640
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In writing my book on suicide attackers, I had researchers scour Lebanese sources to collect martyr videos, pictures and testimonials and the biographies of the Hezbollah bombers. Of the 41, we identified the names, birth places and other personal data for 38. Shockingly, only eight were Islamic fundamentalists. Twenty-seven were from leftist political groups like the Lebanese Communist Party and the Arab Socialist Union. Three were Christians, including a female high-school teacher with a college degree. All were born in Lebanon.
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Robert A. Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is the author of “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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Seems we are both running on the same track.
Granny's photo.
Don't get too upset. The thousands that we let in every year could perhaps be more peaceful.
The Palistianians must be getting desperate.
Grandma blew up by the plane, dear,
Walking home from our house Eid al-Fitr eve.
You can say there's no such thing Grandma bombers,
But as for me and grandpa we believe.
She'd been listening to too much Imam preaching,
And we begged her not to go.
But she forgot her medication, and she
Snuck out the door and had to blow.
When we found her Thanksgiving morning,
At the scene of the attack,
She had pieces of her all over,
There was nothing left to bring back.
Now we're all so proud of grandpa,
He's been taking this so well.
See him in there playing foosball,
Smoking the hookah and
Playing sheshbesh with Cousin Mel.
It's not Eid al-Fitr without Grandma,
All the family's dressed in black
And we just can't help but wonder:
Should we eat her food,
Or send it back?
Send it back!!
Now the pita is on the table
And the olives, stolen from our last job
And the black pits of the olives
That would just have matched
The color of grandma's niqab.
I've warned all my
Friends and neighbors
Better watch out as we said,
They should vever strap a bomb to
To a woman who drives a donkey
And should be at home in bed.
Memo: the next time use a regular antipersonnel grenade instead of a stun one.
This is incredible & very alarming data. Will this information give American, Canadian and British leftist any ideas about self detonating? If so they need to practice, a lot, on an abandoned island.
What kind of "Christians" blow themselves up in an evil acts of mass murder?
Someone who agrees with Rachel Corrie.
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They're not Christians, of course. They are no more Christian than the terrorist adherents of "Liberation Theology" of Central and South America...or Southern Africa. The author is a naive Leftist who writes for the NY Times, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he is ill-equipped to properly interpret his own data.
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See post #27 and #38 for some additional tidbits to chew on--GGG
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