Sana'a Mehaidli
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Sana'a Youssef Mehaidli was a Lebanese militant and member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. At the age of 16, she was killed when she exploded her car next to an Israeli convoy in Jezzine, Leba
Mehaidli in her SSNP uniform
Female suicide bomber
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Female suicide bombers are women who undertake suicide attacks, wherein the bomber kills herself while simultaneously killing targeted people. Suicide bombers are normally viewed as male political rad
Sana'a Mehaidli
…Lebanon, during the South Lebanon conflict. Two Israeli soldiers and a Lebanese soldier were killed in the attack. Mehaidli is believed to be the first female suicide bomber. Mehaidli was born on 14 August 1968 in the Lebanese village of Anqoun to a Shia Muslim family. She lived with her family in the Mousaitbeh area of…
A U.S. Navy servicewoman poses as a captured female suicide bomber during the OPFOR exercise in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii