Palestinian Mother Wants Her Baby To Become a Martyr

Video: Palestinian Mom Wanted Baby to Become Martyr (CNS News)

A Palestinian baby receives a life-saving bone marrow treatment worth $55,000 from an Israeli pediatrician - but what this baby's mother says in this video will shock you.

While waiting for her son's treatment in the Israeli hospital, Raida says that she would be happy to see her son become a "shahid" - an Islamic martyr for Jerusalem.

"Like Arafat said? 'A million shahids (martyrs) for Jerusalem?" asks the journalist Shlomi Eldar.

"More than a million. All of us are for Jerusalem. All of our people," she replies. "All of us, not just a million, we're all for Jerusalem. Do you understand?"