OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Observer: The revenger's tragedy: why women turn to suicide bombing

As the honour codes that bound Palestinian familes unravel, Islamic
Jihad has stepped up its recruitment of women. Kevin Toolis reports from the
West Bank on the cycle of slaughter that drove an ambitious female lawyer to
become a human bomb

The blood red fruit was just beginning to ripen on the pomegranate tree
when Israeli undercover soldiers came for Fardi and Salah Darajat in
Jenin, the besieged 'city of martyrs', in the occupied West Bank.

After a burst of gunfire the cousins lay dying on the dusty track
outside the family home. Their bodies were bundled into a Jeep and driven off.
For Israeli special forces it was another successful hit against militants
from Islamic Jihad. Another notch in the war against terror.

But before the pomegranates were ripe, Fardi's sister Hanadi Darajat
would exact a terrible harvest of revenge by blowing herself up inside
Haifa's Maxim's restaurant and murdering 19 civilians.