Wafa Idris

Despite her supposed dedication as a medic to save lives and live by the abiding.

Wafa idris. Oh wafa idris mercy upon you and shame upon us sociologist dr. The jaffa street bombing was a suicide bombing on january 27 2002 in which wafa idris a 28 year old female palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up in the center of jerusalem killing one person and injuring about 100 others. She lived in the am ari refugee camp in ramallah. None of these reasons alone is enough to explain why she blew herself up.

She was born in a refugee camp conditioned to militancy by the first palestinian uprising against israel divorced by a husband. The bomber was wafa idris a 27 year old palestinian woman who lived in ramallah and worked as a volunteer nurse riding in ambulances and providing emergency care in field hospitals for palestinians wounded by israeli soldiers. She lived in the am ari refugee camp in ramallah. Wafa idris had become the first palestinian woman to become a suicide homicide bomber killing pinhas tokatli.

The west has already understood that all the money it expends to disrupt the consciousness of the muslim woman and make her think that her body and her needs are most important is wasted money. Here are a few details from the abbreviated life of wafa idris. Representing palestinian womanhood at the symbolic funeral for idris held by fatah a revolutionary council member eulogized her. Ahmad al magdoub wrote in egypt s muslim brotherhood mouthpiece afaq arabiya.

At the time of her death idris was a 28 year old divorced red crescent volunteer. At the time of her death idris was a 28 year old divorced red crescent paramedic. Wafa was no wild eyed muslim fundamentalist or fanatical palestinian nationalist. وفاء إدريس 1975 january 27 2002 was the first female suicide bomber in the israeli palestinian conflict.

She said wafa s martyrdom restored honor to the national role of the palestinian woman who sketched the most wonderful pictures of heroism in the long battle for national liberation. Her sister in law wissam idris said wafa was often angry and used to sit by herself in her room for hours.