Recruiter of female suicide bombers

She is known as the “Mother of Believers” but this woman is extremely deadly in her actions. Samira Jassim was captured by the Iraqi forces and faced interrogation over her activities in recruiting female suicide bombers.

The women, after being raped, were convinced by this woman that they should blow themselves up to hide their shame. She worked with the Sunni militant group Ansar al-Sunnah in the Diyala province.

She had recruited up to 80 women to carry out their deadly task. The reason that this tactic was introduced is that it is haram for a man to conduct a body search of a woman, plus the ugly clothing that is worn makes it easy to hide a bomb underneath the garment.

UN Suspends Aid in Gaza – Hamas caught stealing again

The UN aid agency in Gaza has announced that it has suspended all aid shipments, accusing Hamas of seizing supplies of food.

The shipment consisted of ten lorries carrying flour and rice, which were taken from the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.

The UN Secretary –General Ban Ki-moon has stated that Hamas must immediately release the shipment, and he has called upon Hamas to “refrain from interference with the provision and distribution of humanitarian assistance in Gaza”.

Despite the stern warnings from the UN, Hamas have given what can only be considered a sleight of hand response by stating that the goods would only be returned to the agency

“if it turns out it is indeed its property”.

Such a statement is no assurance that the goods will be returned. It is the kind of statement that is intended to give an “out”.

Hamas is being caught out in its double dealing and to add further examples of the double dealing it has been reported that Hamas is ignoring Gazans who are not supporters of Hamas, and that these other people have only received limited financial aid from Hamas, despite having their homes destroyed owing to the actions of Hamas. (I will deal with these actions in another post)

He lost his daughters and a niece... share the anguish

An Israeli probe into the death of the three daughters of a Gaza doctor in a recent offensive has concluded that they were kiled by Israeli fire. The Israeli troops had fired shells at what was considered to be "suspicious figures in Dr. Isseldeen Abuelaish's house, believing they were observers directing sniper fire.

Dr. Izzeldeen Abuelaish is an Israeli trained doctor who is fluent in Hebrew. He denies that there were snipers near his house. It could be that the snipers were indeed hiding nearby, knowing that the doctor was a friend to Israel (this is speculation).

His response to the inquiry shows the good doctor to be a remarkable person:

"We all make mistakes, ad we don't repeat the."

He also added " I have two options - the path of darkness or the path of light. The path of darkness is like choosing all the complications with diseases and depression, but the path of light is to focus on the future of my children. "

Let us pray for the good doctor and his family during their time of sorrow and grief.