June 2005 Palestinian mothers’ support for their children’s suicide terror missions

Murder

An interview on official Palestinian Authority television offers a chilling twist on the popular TV topic – Palestinian mothers’ support for their children’s suicide terror missions.

The interview features the mother of Wafa Al-Bas, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman who was arrested at the Erez border crossing in June 2005 with a 20-pound bomb inside her underwear. Her target was the outpatient clinic of Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, where she had been receiving regular treatments for serious burns to 45 per cent of her body from a gas stove explosion in her home.

Her greatest wish, she said later, was to kill 30 to 50 Israelis, including children. The hospital attack would likely have killed or maimed the Israeli doctor who had saved her life.

Source: Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin, February 27, 2006; “PA TV: Mom sad daughter arrested, but not because of bombing attempt” by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook.