Woman suicide bomber vowed to die a martyr

Wafa Idris, the Palestinian’s first female suicide bomber who blew herself up at the weekend, was a former volunteer paramedic who had been hit three times by Israeli rubber bullets.

She did not tell her family she was a member of any militant group, relatives said today. But the Al Aqsa Brigades, part of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, said she carried out the bombing.