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“It was always our choice to be fuel for the struggle,” he said. “But our problem now is that the car burns the youth as fuel but doesn’t move. There’s a problem in the engine, in the head. These kids are willing to be fuel, but many have been burned as waste.”
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Mrs. Assar said softly: “I feel there is no way I can protect them or hide them. Normally people are happy with a new baby, but when I delivered Salma I thought, ‘Oh my God, a third child in this life.’ It haunts me — I think, ‘What if? What if? What if a rocket hits the house? What if the Israelis have another “accident”? What if Mustafa is 19 and attracted to a group of militants and I don’t know, and I hear on TV that this person went to Israel and exploded himself?’ You live with this, ‘What if?’ But there’s no inner peace. You get so nervous you want to scream!”
Her husband said: “We can’t give them security and safety. They can’t live as normal children. When a kid realizes a parent can’t supply security and safety, what is the point of these parents?”
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Inspired by a 2004 suicide attack carried out in Israel, by her cousin Nabil on behalf of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Mirvat volunteered to become a suicide bomber. She was close to Nabil, who had lived upstairs in the Jabaliya refugee camp and was only a year older. The brigades declined her offer, however, saying that one young “martyr” in a family was enough. They told her father, Amin Massoud, a longtime Fatah member, who said he was shocked.
“I spoke to her of course,” said Mr. Massoud, agitated, moving his hands through the empty air. “I said, ‘Your education will be jihad. Going to school is jihad. If you become a doctor, that’s jihad.’ But I don’t know what drove her — too much faith inside her, I don’t know.”
But the wall above Mirvat’s desk is still covered with “martyr posters” from the dead of Jabaliya camp, and her parents knew she was becoming more religious and political. She was enraged by reports of a van of schoolchildren hit by shrapnel in Beit Hanun, and she slipped away. She volunteered again, successfully this time, for Islamic Jihad. She died, slightly wounding two Israelis."

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