Women’s Rights, Palestinian Style
The “armed wing” of the Palestinian “moderate” Fatah Party has announced their very first female suicide bomber unit.
A group belonging to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party announced on Monday that it had recruited Palestinian women to launch suicide attacks against Israel.
A woman who identified herself as Um al-Abed told reporters in Gaza City that so far about 100 women had expressed their desire to carry out suicide attacks against Israel. She claimed that she was a spokeswoman for the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah.
The Aksa Martyrs Brigades, she added, recently established a secret military unit for female suicide bombers from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. “We have so far recruited 100 women for the new unit,” Um al-Abed said as she sat next to several masked women who identified themselves as members of Fatah.
“We are expecting more female suicide bombers. The new unit is now preparing to launch attacks against Israel in response to the Israeli aggression and crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip.”