To Be Bomber Reaches Out to Israelis

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Six years ago, Palestinian woman Shifa Al Qudsi planned to strap a suicide bomb under a maternity dress and blow herself up – killing herself and as many Israeli civilians as possible. She was prepared to do this even though she was a single parent to a seven year old daughter. Al Qudsi was caught before she could carry out the bombing and spent six years in an Israeli jail.  She was released earlier this year, and says she's undergone a change of heart.  Where before she wanted to kill Israelis, now she says she wants to reach out to them. Irris Makler went to Tul Karem in the northern West Bank to hear her story.

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