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BETHLEHEM, West Bank — When 18-year-old Ayat al-Akhras blew herself up outside a busy Jerusalem supermarket in 2002, killing two Israelis, her grieving parents were unable to bury her and say ...
Ayat al-Akhras, 18, was a popular, outgoing girl from Bethlehem - a straight "A" student who was engaged to be married. She had a life full of promise, one would have thought.
Ayat al-Akhras and Rachel Levy never knew each other, but they grew up less than four miles apart. One had spent her life locked within the grim confines of the Dehaishe refugee camp outside ...
April 13 -- The last Ayat al-Akhras' family saw of the 18-year-old was a grainy, videotaped suicide note recorded just before she set off for a Jerusalem store. "She left the house in the morning ...
Emotional, detailed but ultimately every bit as infuriating as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "To Die in Jerusalem" clearly makes its point about the endless cycle of death and anger but ...
When 18-year-old Ayat al-Akhras blew herself up outside a busy Jerusalem supermarket in 2002, killing two Israelis, her grieving parents were unable to bury her and say their final goodbyes ...
Palestinian Khadra al-Akhras poses with a photo of her late daughter Ayat al-Akhras, who blew herself up in a suicide bombing outside a Jerusalem supermarket in 2002, at the family house in the ...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — When 18-year-old Ayat al-Akhras blew herself up outside a busy Jerusalem supermarket in 2002, killing two Israelis, her grieving parents were unable to bury her and ...