 The suicide bomber lived in the village of Beit Fajar, sixteen kilometers south of Bethlehem, where her entire family clan the Takatka resides.Her two cousins Iman Takatka, age seventeen, and Samia Takatka, age twenty-one, were captured by Israeli security forces as they prepared to carry out suicide bombings at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market.The girls were taken to an Israeli prison and in response to the attempted attack, their family's home was demolished by the IDF, and Andalib witnessed this.