Hamas asks Egypt to help save 'Mother of Martyrs'

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By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Miriam Farhat, the Palestinian mother who became famous in 2002 when she appeared in a video encouraging her son to attack a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, was reported Thursday to be in critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack.

"When I see all the Jews in Palestine killed, that will be enough for me," she said on camera. "I wish he will kill as many as he can, so they will be scared."

Her son Muhammad, 19, killed five teenagers and wounded 23 people at Atzmona before he was shot dead in March of that year.

Hamas seized the opportunity of her illness to exert pressure on the Egyptians to reopen the Rafah border crossing so that she could be transferred to an Egyptian hospital.

The Egyptians initially refused to allow her in, but later succumbed to the pressure and reopened the crossing.

Farhat's eldest son, Nidal, was killed in 2003 while he was preparing for another attack. A third son, Rawad, died in an IAF raid on his vehicle in 2005.

The death of her three sons earned Farhat the title "Mother of Martyrs" and turned her into a heroic symbol of the second intifada in the eyes of many Palestinians.

Farhat, 59, was elected as a Hamas representative in the parliamentary elections that were held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in January 2006.
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The video in which she appeared saying farewell to her son Muhammad before he set out on his suicidal mission came as shock to many.

Asked why she had encouraged her sons to carry out attacks, Farhat said that she wished she had 100 sons to sacrifice that way.

In a series of interviews with the Palestinian and Arab media, Farhat admitted that after the death of her first son had she encouraged her other sons to follow in his footsteps and become shahids (martyrs): "After the martyrdom , my heart was peaceful about Muhammad. I encouraged all my sons to die a martyr's death, and I wish this even for myself."

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1. Palestinian mothers who encourage the death of their children

in order to kill as many innocent people as possible are criminally insane and should be locked in a mental ward.

Asked why she had encouraged her sons to carry out attacks, Farhat said that she wished she had 100 sons to sacrifice that way.

This is blasphemous.