Bomb in west bank village

On November 12, 2003 in the West Bank a Palestinian boy named Sabih Abu Saud blew himself up in a West Bank village. Sabih was only sixteen years old making him one of the youngest of over hundred suicide bombers to this day. Sabih was in pursuit of an Israeli jeep but was unsuccessful. The day after his death, something unusual happened; unlike the parents of many suicide bombers, Kamal Abu Saud did not praise his son. In the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the suicide bombers families have rarely viewed there loved ones as anything less than heroes after a suicide bombing. Mr. Saud surprisingly did not see the point of his son’s actions and was only suffering from his son’s demise. Mr. Saud said, “As a father, I am angry about what happened” and if he had known his son’s objectives “I would have prevented him, if I could.”
Mr. Saud’s grief was not shared with anyone but himself, not even with his own wife and mother of Sabih. In the streets of Nablu...