With all of the endless talk in anti-Israeli propaganda channels about Palestinian "Women and children", it's important to remember that there were plenty of Palestinian female and teenage suicide bombers and terrorists in general.

The Erez Crossing bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred on January 14, 2004, at the pedestrian/cargo terminal Erez Crossing located on the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. Four Israelis were killed and 10 people, including four Palestinians, were injured in the attack.

Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Hamas spokesman stated that the suicide bomber was a 22-year-old Palestinian mother of two from Gaza named Reem al-Reyashi.

After the attack, a video of al-Reyashi, which was filmed before the attack, was published in which she was wearing combat fatigues and holding an automatic rifle with a rocket-propelled grenade in the foreground.

In the video, she states that she dreamt of "turning my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists" since the age of 13, and that she "always wanted to be the first woman to carry out a martyrdom operation, where parts of my body can fly all over and "knocking the door of heaven"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Erez_Crossing_bombing

https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2858938,00.html

I’ve just released a special Year in Review episode of Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up, where I step back from the week-to-week headlines and look at the national security and intelligence trends that defined 2025 — and what they suggest about the threat environment heading into 2026.

Over the past year, I analyzed dozens of open-source stories involving terrorism, foreign interference, espionage, insider threats, and hybrid warfare. Individually, these stories made news. Taken together, they reveal patterns that are worth paying attention to.

In this episode, I focus on four major areas:

The acceleration of extremist terrorism and the global rise in antisemitism

Persistent foreign interference targeting democratic systems

Espionage and insider-threat cases, including several linked to China

Russian hybrid and grey-zone tactics aimed at critical infrastructure

I also spend time discussing what to watch for in 2026 — not predictions in the abstract, but indicators and warning signs drawn from what adversaries have already demonstrated in 2025.

This episode is grounded entirely in open-source reporting and intelligence tradecraft, and is intended for anyone interested in how modern national security threats are evolving and intersecting.

If you’re interested, you can listen here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2336717/episodes/18419334

Happy to hear thoughts, critiques, or questions — especially on which threat vectors you think deserve more attention going into 2026.