The wife of a Hamas leader said she would not allow her son to become a martyr for the Palestinian cause. Umm Mohammed, wife of Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Rantissi, told Hamas activists who called to recruit her son for a suicide mission that instead he will finish his studies.
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