Fatma Omar An-Najar

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Fatma Omar Mahmoud An-Najar (Arabic: فاطمة عمر محمود النجار, romanized: Fāṭimah ʻUmar Maḥmūd al-Najjār; died November 23, 2006) was a Palestinian grandmother and suicide bomber who lived in the Gaza Strip.

On November 23, 2006, she detonated explosives she was wearing on a belt, and injured several Israeli soldiers near Beit Lahia and the Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza.

[2][3] An-Najar blew herself up on 23 November 2006, becoming the oldest out of the one hundred suicide bombers from the previous six years.

[4] She approached Israeli soldiers near the town of Beit Lahia and detonated the explosives on her belt when they threw stun grenades at her.

[5][1] In her martyrdom video, An-Najar said she made the attack in the name of Hamas and its military leader Mohammed Deif.