Palestinian Woman Lawyer's Revenge
for Israeli Military's Murder of her Brother and Cousin
Profession: Lawyer
Motive: Revenge for Murder of her Brother and Cousin
From the West Bank town of Jenin.
At least 19 people are dead after an explosion tore through a restaurant in the northern city of Haifa in Israel.Israeli police have said the blast was caused by a Palestinian human bomber
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.
In a statement, Islamic Jihad named the bomber as 27-year-old Hanadi Tayssir Jaradat from Jenin, of late the scene of daily raids by the Israeli occupation army.
It said the attack was in revenge for the death of her brother and cousin, who were killed by Israeli troops in Jenin on 12 June.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, had vowed in a statement after the June 12 killings that it would avenge the Israeli "crimes".
Israeli troops later dynamited the West Bank family home of the suicide bomber, Palestinian security sources said.
Aljazeera reports:
There was little that was unusual about the way Hanadi Jarahat left home Saturday morning.In a separate incident today, Israeli occupation forces gunned dawn a nine-year-old Palestinian child and a resistance activist during a raid on a refugee camp in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem.
Apart from the fact she departed slightly earlier than normal, there was nothing in her behaviour to suggest that she did not intend to come back.
The 27-year-old apprentice lawyer slipped into Israel with one mission in mind: Revenge.
Once in Haifa, she identified her target as the bustling seaside Maxim restaurant. Shooting a guard to get inside, Hanadi then detonated a load of explosives.
Islamic Jihad's military wing, Saraya al-Quds, said later Hanadi had carried out the attack in retaliation for the deaths of several of its leaders in Israeli attacks.
But family members said the motive was closer to home. "The only thing that would push her to do that would be to avenge my brother's death," her brother Thahir, aged 15, told AP.
On 12 June, Israeli troops who had come to arrest her cousin Salah, a member of Islamic Jihad, killed him and her brother Fadi.
Sources said Jaradat watched as Israeli troops shot and killed her brother and a cousin at the family home in June. She heard the shots and ran outside to help, but the soldiers forced her away.
Hanadi had always been religious, fasting twice a week. After the killings, she fasted during daylight hours every day. She began reading the Quran as well.
Hanadi finished her legal studies in Jordan five years ago and was supposed to finish her apprenticeship the following week before qualifying as a lawyer, said her family. They were shocked to hear she was responsible for the bombing.
It is not known whether Hanadi would have acted differently had she been aware Maxim was frequented by Arabs as well as Jews. Whatever the case, at least four Arabs were among the 18 dead, according to Israeli police.
Arabs, who make up 12% of Haifa's population, became citizens of Israel when the Jewish state was created in 1948 in parts of what had been British-mandate Palestine.
"But we are receiving congratulations from people," Thahir said.
"Why should we cry? It's like her wedding today, the happiest day for her," he said.
Mohammad Barahme, 9, was killed when an Israeli unit entered the camp and opened fire on three members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
The youngster, who had happened to be in the vicinity, was shot in the chest, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.
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