Farhat had strong militant credentials, including an appearance carrying a gun in a video in which she advised one of her sons, Mohammed, on tactics before he attacked a Jewish settlement.
[1] Muhammad entered the Gaza Strip former settlement of Atzmona and opened fire and threw hand grenades at Israeli students enrolled in a pre-military school, killing five and wounding 23 others.
[4] Otzem Pre-Military Preparatory School in the Israeli settlement of Atzmona Farhat ran as a candidate of Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election.
[2] In an interview published in both the Israeli Arab weekly Kul al-Arab and the London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Umm Nidal said she was proud of her sons.
In her December 2005 interview,[5] Umm Nidal said: Farhat died on 17 March 2013, aged 64, from multiple organ failure, in Gaza City.