Home          Archives           Jerusalem Center Homepage       View the current issue           Jerusalem Center Videos           
Back

Report: Yassin Personally Authorized Woman Bomber


(Jerusalem Post) Reem Salah al-Rayashi, 21, approached Hamas several times with the request to be a suicide bomber. "She practically begged," an Arab affairs reporter told Israel TV Channel 2. The Hamas leadership repeatedly spurned her requests, until Sheikh Yassin himself intervened. Yassin personally gave his blessing for al-Rayashi to be used as a bomber, and issued a decree (a few hours after Wednesday's attack) that "Jihad was the duty of men and women."
2004-01-16 00:00:00
Full Article

Subscribe to
Daily Alert

Name:  
Email:  

Subscribe to Jerusalem Issue Briefs

Name:  
Email: