Fatma Omar An-Najar
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Fatma Omar Juma was a 64-year-old Palestinian
widow who blew herself up near Israeli troops sweeping through northern Gaza on November 23, 2006, wounding two soldiers. According to her oldest daughter, the Israelis military had destroyed her house, they killed her grandson and another grandson is in a wheelchair with an amputated leg. She was a veteran Hamas supporter and sheltered fugitive militants during the first Palestinian uprising of 1987-1993. She is reported to have been the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber to date.
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
widow who blew herself up near Israeli troops sweeping through northern Gaza on November 23, 2006, wounding two soldiers. According to her oldest daughter, the Israelis military had destroyed her house, they killed her grandson and another grandson is in a wheelchair with an amputated leg. She was a veteran Hamas supporter and sheltered fugitive militants during the first Palestinian uprising of 1987-1993. She is reported to have been the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber to date.
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- "I hope God accepts it," http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/23/africa/ME_GEN_Grandmother_Bomber.php