Do Palestinian mothers have the same feelings for their offspring as other mothers? Some of them apparently do not, according to the April issue of \"Palestine al-Muslima.\" Facts gathered by the IDF Spokesperson\'s Office based on that magazine and other sources provide the following chilling picture:
Only hours before setting off on a massacre mission in the community of Dugit, young Hamas terrorist Mahmud Hasan Al-Abed, aged 24, appeared in a video with his mother in which he informed her of his plans to \"kill and be killed.\" Her joy at hearing this news was surpassed only by that she felt the next day when she heard that he had in fact been killed, and had also killed two soldiers in the process. She celebrated the news by ululating and clapping her hands, according to her friends.
She was merely following in the footsteps of other mothers-of-martyr before her. Mariam Farhat, mother of 18-year-old Muhammad, was filmed giving him her blessing for an attack against Jews and saying she wished she had \"100 sons like him.\" Muhammad in fact attacked the Atzmonah pre-military academy three months ago and murdered five boys his own age. His mother continued to celebrate after learning of his death. Similarly, the mother of 20-year-old Muhamad Khils had urged her son to carry out a \"kill and be killed\" attack in Netzarim, and later said that she had prayed to Allah to take her son as a martyr.
\"Encountering no objection from the PA,\" the IDF Spokesperson concluded, \"Hamas continues to glorify the \"heroism\" of the mothers who gleefully send their sons to their deaths.\"
Only hours before setting off on a massacre mission in the community of Dugit, young Hamas terrorist Mahmud Hasan Al-Abed, aged 24, appeared in a video with his mother in which he informed her of his plans to \"kill and be killed.\" Her joy at hearing this news was surpassed only by that she felt the next day when she heard that he had in fact been killed, and had also killed two soldiers in the process. She celebrated the news by ululating and clapping her hands, according to her friends.
She was merely following in the footsteps of other mothers-of-martyr before her. Mariam Farhat, mother of 18-year-old Muhammad, was filmed giving him her blessing for an attack against Jews and saying she wished she had \"100 sons like him.\" Muhammad in fact attacked the Atzmonah pre-military academy three months ago and murdered five boys his own age. His mother continued to celebrate after learning of his death. Similarly, the mother of 20-year-old Muhamad Khils had urged her son to carry out a \"kill and be killed\" attack in Netzarim, and later said that she had prayed to Allah to take her son as a martyr.
\"Encountering no objection from the PA,\" the IDF Spokesperson concluded, \"Hamas continues to glorify the \"heroism\" of the mothers who gleefully send their sons to their deaths.\"