A Mother's Hands

Maya Alleruzzo

The Washington Times

Om Mohammed helps her twelve-year-old son Abu Ali with a toy suicide bomber belt he fashioned on his own. 'I hope to be a Martyr...I hope when I get 14 or 15 to explode myself.' His mother is proud of her son, 'God gave him to me to protect and defend our homeland.' The family is seen in their Gaza City home.

Maya Alleruzzo, "A Mother's Hands," in POYi Archive, Item #32635, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/32635 (accessed November 22, 2024).