MER - The First Female "Suicide Bomber" Martyr

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> As a paramedic who treated the Palestinian wounded in clashes with Israel soldiers, Idris had been hit three times by Israeli rubber bullets, her family said. Her sister-in-law, Wisam Idris, noticed a transformation in Wafa after Palestinian-Israeli violence broke out in September 2000. <br> <br>"Usually when she came back from work, she would tell us stories about the injured people she had treated and she looked affected," Wisam Idris said. "She used to say `If I die, I want to die as a martyr,'" a reference to those who die fighting Israel. <br> </body>