Taha Qattanani told the Palestine Today channel that a “great pride that has fallen upon me, the blood of my daughter Ashrakat, who didn’t go out and play games … became a martyr and now I won the honor to be the father of a martyr.”

Jerusalem Post Arab affairs analyst Khaled Abu-Toameh reported that the assailant had asked to donate her organs, reflecting the premeditated nature of the attack in which she expected to be killed.

Eyewitnesses said that the 16-year-old Palestinian girl, identified as Ashrakat Qattanani by Raed Amr, a local Palestinian activist, stopped on her way to school Sunday morning at an intersection in the northern West Bank and tried to stab Israeli women.

Gershon Mesika, former head of the Samaria Council, told Israel’s Channel 2 that he was pulling over to pick up hitchhikers when he heard young women screaming.

“Suddenly, I heard the screams ‘terrorist, terrorist, terrorist!’ I lifted my head and saw a big woman, wielding a knife and chasing after two girls … about 2 meters behind,” Mesika said, according to a translation of his Channel 2 remarks.

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