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The first known suicide attack by a woman was carried out in Lebanon on April 9 , 1985. Sana'a Mouhadly, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), detonated an explosive-laden vehicle, which killed two IDF soldiers and injured two more. Since then, female suicide bombers have been employed in several conflicts, by a variety of organizations, against both military and civilian targets:
PALESTINIAN BOMBERS Some argue that the increasing prevalence of female suicide bombers in the Intifada is a sign of the rising status of women in Arab culture. Others point out that women are simply joining the men in resisting the occupation, a choice that is open to them in Islamic teaching. Some militant organizations have used women to carry out suicide bombings because they draw less suspicion than men and go through less rigorous by simply lifting his shirt, ordering a woman is much less acceptable, paticularly in the Islamic World . Israeli security procedures practice is that a suspected woman is to be checked by a female soldier in a screened off area. On the same day Darine Abu Aisha committed a suicide bombing, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin , the religious leader of Islamist militant group Hamas , issued a fatwa, or religious rule, that gave permission to women to participate in suicide attacks as well as listing the rewards in "Paradise" that these female martyrs would receive upon their deaths. He also promised Hamas will send many female suicide bombers in order to strike Israelis. Reactions to this in the Islamic world were ambivalent. While many hailed the female suicide bomber and urged full involvement of all in '' Jihad '', some criticized the cruelty of tearing mothers from their children and sending them to explode themselves. LIST OF FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS BY COUNTRY India
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Sri Lanka The Tamil Tigers have carried out more suicide bombings than any other organization, and in doing so have employed more women—an estimated 30–40% of their bombers have been female. Turkey See Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front . EXTERNAL LINKS
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