A Palestinian woman celebrated when she heard that her son had died in a shooting attack that killed two Israeli soldiers. In a farewell video taped before Mahmoud Abed embarked on a suicide attack, he sat holding hands with his mother, who prayed for him to become a “martyr.”
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