Shifa al-Qudsi at the beauty parlour where she worked before she was arrested and jailed for plotting a suicide attack. 'I was angry,' she says. 'It was an eye for an eye.'Woman Who Wore A Suicide Bomb Takes Up Fight For
Middle East Peace -- The Independent
Middle East Peace -- The Independent
Shifa al-Qudsi stood in the dark corner of a room while a young man from the Al-Aqsa Brigade checked the suicide vest rigged to her body to make sure the explosive charge was correctly connected. "All you have to do is press the button," he said, before stressing the importance of ensuring that she produces her martyr's will in front of a video camera.
"It was the hardest, cruellest moment of my life," Ms Qudsi recalls. "I did what was asked, and I made my will trying to explain to my six-year-old daughter and my parents what I was doing. I also sent a message to the Israelis and the outside world that I was a freedom fighter and not a terrorist."
The 24-year-old beauty technician was being sent from her home in the West Bank town of Tulkarem to blow up a supermarket in the nearby Israeli town of Netanya. In the bitter hatred spawned by years of savage violence between Israelis and Palestinians, she had convinced herself her action was a justified response to the brutality inflicted on her people.
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My Comment: She is still angry.