Wafa Idris killed herself while committing the Jaffa Street bombing.
16 Facts About Wafa Idris
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At the time of her suicide, Idris was a 28-year-old divorcee and lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah.
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Wafa Idris' parents were refugees who lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp having fled Ramla in 1948 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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Wafa Idris's father died when she was eight years old.
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Wafa Idris was about 12 years old when the First Intifada started in 1987.
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Wafa Idris's eldest brother was a leader of the Fatah faction of Yasir Arafat.
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Wafa Idris was married to her first cousin when she was 16 years old.
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Wafa Idris delivered a stillborn baby in the seventh month of pregnancy when she was 23, and was told that she would never be able to carry a baby to full term.
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Wafa Idris's husband told her he wanted to take a second wife as Islam allows.
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Wafa Idris's husband sent her back to her childhood home to live with her mother, a brother, and his wife and five children.
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Wafa Idris then began volunteering for the Red Crescent Society and trained as a medic.
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On 27 January 2002, Wafa Idris was transported to Jerusalem by a Red Crescent ambulance, whose driver was part of the plot, and killed herself while committing the Jaffa Street bombing.
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Wafa Idris, wearing a Red Crescent uniform, then detonated a 22-pound bomb made up of TNT packed into pipes, in the center of Jerusalem outside a shoe store on the busy main shopping street Jaffa Road.
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Wafa Idris carried the bomb in a backpack, rather than strapped to her body.
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Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack a few days after the attack, saying Wafa Idris had carried it out in response to Israeli military actions.
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Wafa Idris's friends speculated that she was driven to commit the suicide bombing by the failure of her marriage.