Women Join Hamas

From the Jerusalem Post:

Hamas revealed over the weekend that dozens of women in the Gaza Strip have joined its armed wing, Izzaddin Kassam, and were preparing to carry out attacks on Israel.

Pictures posted on the Hamas-affiliated Palestine Information Center Web site showed masked women, dressed in military fatigues and armed with Kalashnikov rifles and pistols, receiving training at a secret location in the Gaza Strip.

According to Hamas, the women were being trained in planting roadside bombs, firing rockets and mortars and infiltrating Jewish settlements.

Undoubtedly, Palestinian women have been involved with terrorist activities all along, but this is the first time that I've heard that Hamas has formed an official all-female military unit. Stupid me, I was under the impression that the Palestinians would be less belligerent when the Israeli settlers left the Gaza Strip. On the contrary, they are emboldened.