claimed responsibility for the attack a few days after the attack which they said Idris had carried out in response to Israeli military actions. Her family said that Idris was angered by seeing children shot and killed during confrontations in Ramallah. According to her mother, although Idris' three brothers were members of Fatah, she was not known to be an activist with any Palestinian militant group. As the first Palestinian woman to undertake such an attack, Idris received more international and regional media attention than Palestinian male bombers and two of the three Palestinian women bombers who followed her in 2002, with the exception of Ayat al-Akhras, the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber. The bombing created intense interest in the Arab media with many newspapers describing Idris as a hero and a nationalist. An editorial published in Egypt's weekly newspaper Al-Sha'ab a few days after the bombing, stated, in part, "It is a woman who teaches you today a lesson in heroism, who teaches you the meaning of jihad, and the way to die a martyr's death ...It is a woman who has shocked the enemy with her thin, meager and weak body. It is a woman who blew herself up, and with her exploded all the myths about woman's weakness, submissiveness, and enslavement." Legacy In March 2011, Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Fatah-affiliated Al-Amari Palestinian youth center announced a football tournament named after Wafa Idris. See also Andalib Suleiman, 17-year-old female perpetrator of a 2002 Jerusalem marketplace suicide bombing Ayat al-Akhras, 18- or 16-year-old female perpetrator of a 2002 suicide bombing at a Jerusalem supermarket Hanadi Jaradat, 28-year-old female perpetrator of a 2003 suicide bombing inside a Haifa restaurant Additional sources "Wafa Idrees: A symbol of a Generation", Arabic Media Internet Network, 23 February 2002 "Filling in the Blanks on Palestinian Bomber", New York Times, 31 January 2002 The Palestinians see a `Joan of Arc', Haaretz, 2 February 2010 Female Suicide Bombers: Dying for Equality? - The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies References Palestinian female murderers Female suicide bombers People from Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate 1975 births 2002 deaths