Hamas refused to give explosives to the woman who carried out a suicide attack Wednesday at a West Bank roadblock. After Hamas refused her request because she was a woman, Dareen Abu Aisheh, 21, got the explosives she needed from the military wing of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.
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