Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement established a unit of female suicide bombers. The New York Times reported last Friday that Fatah, the mainstream PLO faction headed by the Palestinian Authority president, had established a unit of female suicide bombers in its Al-Aksa Brigade military wing.
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