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Grandmother in first Hamas suicide attack in two years
breitbart.com ^ | 11-23-2006 | staff

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: deathcult; dhimmi; dhimmiwatch; grandma; grandmother; gwot; hamas; intifada; islam; israel; jihad; palestine; palestinian; palestinians; religionofpeace; rop; suicide; terror; terrorism; terrorists; wot
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To: Nachum
This will sound bad.

If a woman is a murderer or beatch when young, being old does not necessarily change or excuse that.

Being old does not necessarily change ideology, sometimes, age reinforces it.

Being old is not an excuse. For anything.

41 posted on 11/23/2006 12:33:33 PM PST by Last Laugh
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To: M. Espinola

You might also be interested in the following:

http://www.worldthreats.com/russia_former_ussr/Terrorists%20In%20Muslim%20Diguise.htm


42 posted on 11/23/2006 12:36:32 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Nachum
Some day every single Muslim must be forcibly relocated to Saudi Arabia, and those borders sealed, and they must all be denied transportation and technology.

That will be the only thing that will work when dealing with the demon seed of Islam.

43 posted on 11/23/2006 12:36:38 PM PST by Maeve
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To: Nachum

Just more proof that muzzies are animals. What person, claiming to be part of the Human race, would send a Grandmother to blow up innocent people.


44 posted on 11/23/2006 12:38:06 PM PST by Post-Neolithic (Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
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To: Petronski

Penetrating, as usual.


45 posted on 11/23/2006 12:43:20 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: M. Espinola; GodGunsGuts

While Christians were active in the early days of terrorism, particularly through the PFLP, a Marxist group, to my knowledge Christian operatives never took to suicide attacks. That's more a Muslim thing.


46 posted on 11/23/2006 12:44:02 PM PST by SJackson (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user, T. Roosevelt)
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To: SJackson

And/or a Marxist-Leninist thing.


47 posted on 11/23/2006 12:49:31 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

I'm not going to add remedial footnotes to my posts just so you can understand them. Either you comprehend them or you don't, it matters not to me (except perhaps for what amusement I can derive).

If you don't belong in the deep end of the pool, cry help and someone will throw you a flotation device and fish you out.


48 posted on 11/23/2006 12:49:58 PM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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To: Petronski
"Someone who agrees with Rachel Corrie."

In other words in name only, coupled with being rabid leftists.

49 posted on 11/23/2006 12:56:29 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: Petronski
Swimmer, cry out for help thyself!!! You have been drowning on the shallow end of the pool ever since I first encountered you. And a little piece of advice...when you're drowning, your job is to grab onto the flotation device...not the lifeguard. LOL!
50 posted on 11/23/2006 1:00:24 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Nachum

She was a late boomer.


51 posted on 11/23/2006 1:02:06 PM PST by Cogadh na Sith (There's an open road from the cradle to the tomb.)
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To: M. Espinola

Precisely. I wish had the references at my fingertips, but IIRC, PCUSA is one pro-Palie "Christian" group, as well as the Unitarians. There are others.


52 posted on 11/23/2006 1:04:18 PM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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To: Petronski
Maybe the National Council of Churches will send a 'Pinko Brigade' to Iran to protect the terrorist exporting régime.
53 posted on 11/23/2006 1:09:15 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: M. Espinola
NCC! They don't even have the guts to put "Christian" in their group name. Some small wisp of conscience remains.   Maybe.
54 posted on 11/23/2006 1:13:32 PM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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To: Nachum
Was she truly a suicide bomber or where her children/grandchildren threatened?
55 posted on 11/23/2006 1:13:51 PM PST by W. W. SMITH (Is there any right devoid of responsibility?)
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To: Nachum

ROTFLMAO! You are demented just like I am! ;-)


56 posted on 11/23/2006 1:15:18 PM PST by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
And yet, even though my reply was understood by its recipient, and you did not understand it, somehow I'm drowning?

Whatever you say, Chachi.

57 posted on 11/23/2006 1:16:07 PM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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Dear Lord, on this day of Thanksgiving, please forgive woofer2425 for his hateful, blood-thirsty rant; and then grant him his wish to rid the world of Satan's minions AKA the ROP. Amen.


58 posted on 11/23/2006 1:21:51 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: ApplegateRanch
And please be with the pygmies down there in New Guinea...
59 posted on 11/23/2006 1:29:11 PM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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To: Nachum

I think I'm hearing a Christmas parody in my head saying "Write me, write me!"


60 posted on 11/23/2006 1:31:20 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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