Posted AT 6:14 AM EDT on 22/06/05
'My dream was to be a martyr'
Ramallah — The few seconds of video footage captured at Gaza's Erez crossing sent chills down the spines of Israeli television viewers: A young woman with her hair in a ponytail, her arms and neck grotesquely disfigured with burns, grimacing and crying before revealing to soldiers her deadly burden.
Wafa al-Biss, 21, had been travelling regularly for weeks to the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on medical permits.
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