Hamas spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, personally authorized the use of the female suicide bomber who attacked the Erez terminal crossing Wednesday, killing four Israelis.

According to Channel 2, Reem Salah al-Rayashi, 21, the mother of two small children, approached Hamas several times with the request to be a suicide bomber.

"She practically begged," an Arab affairs reporter told Channel 2.

The Hamas leadership repeatedly spurned her requests, until Yassin himself intervened...