This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.An attack took place on the night of March 7, 2002 at the Otzem Pre-Military Preparatory School in the Israeli settlement of Atzmona in the Gaza Strip in which five of the seminary students were killed and twenty-three were injured.
[1] On March 7, 2002, at around 11:30 p.m., a terrorist from the Jebaliya refugee camp, armed with an automatic weapon, entered the Atzmona settlement in the southern Gaza Strip.
[3] From the moment the attack began until the militant's death, 10 to 20 minutes has passed,[2] during which time he managed to shoot 9 machine gun magazines and throw 7 grenades.
[3] It subsequently turned out that the ideological training of the future suicide bomber was conducted by his own mother, Maryam Muhammad Yusif Farhat, now better known as Umm Nidal.
Muhammad Farhat, who witnessed Akel and his associates preparing actions against the Israelis, became his student and member of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades at the age of seven.
In 2006, Umm Nidal, after the death of Ruad, who declared that she wanted to see her other four sons as martyrs,[7] was elected as a deputy of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Hamas.