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On World Children’s Day, We Looked at How Palestinian Leaders Abuse Their Children
Images featured in Palestinian Authority textbooks reviewed by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se). Photo: IMPACT-se.
Wednesday was World Children’s Day. According to the UN, this day is a call to action for schools, communities, and institutions to engage with and support children.
Thus, World Children’s Day is a great opportunity to examine how the Palestinian Authority (PA) engages with children in its own schools, communities, and institutions.
As it has been doing for decades, the Palestinian Authority continues to indoctrinate its young people to seek death as “Martyrs” or imprisonment as terrorists, thus emulating those it portrays as heroes and role models.
The PA also continues to reinforce its most fundamental of all messages — that Israel has no right to exist.
The following is a collection of recent children’s activities, and PA messages to children:
Terrorist prisoners are brave heroes
From a school event in Qabatiya honoring terrorist prisoners:
Text on sign on left: “A homeland whose heroes are Martyrs and prisoners is a free homeland”
A poster with the pictures of three terrorists: Yaqub Qaderi, who murdered one person together with an accomplice; Mahmoud Ardah, who was involved in numerous terror attacks; and Muhammad Ardah, who was involved in the murder of three people.
The picture on the left is terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who was convicted of planning three attacks in which five people were murdered. He also planned many others as head of the Tanzim terror organization.
Posted text: “Our prisoners are in the period of annihilation [by Israel]. Activities of solidarity from the schools of the Qabatiya Directorate of Education [i.e., branch of the PA Ministry of Education] to support the prisoners in the occupation’s prisons” [The Qabatiya Directorate of Education, Facebook page, Nov. 6, 2024 — emphasis added]
Israel has no right to exist in any borders
Poster in the center shows a map that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine.”
[South Hebron Directorate of Education, Facebook page, Nov. 11, 2024]
Child second from left wears a shirt with the PA map of “Palestine” erasing israel in the colors of the Palestinian flag, along with the text: “We will return.” [South Hebron Directorate of Education, Facebook page, Nov. 11, 2024]
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Girl holds a poster featuring the PA map of “Palestine” with a rifle barrel emerging from the top and the word “Palestine” alongs its center.
[South Hebron Directorate of Education, Facebook page, Nov. 11, 2024]
The girl in the center is holding a poster featuring a map that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine.” The map is wrapped in chains and a keffiyeh pattern. Next to it is a large symbol of the refugees’ so-called “right of return.”
[PA Hebron Governorate, Facebook page, Nov. 5, 2024]
In the below photo, schoolchildren are holding pictures of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat. On the school wall in the background is a large key symbolizing the refugees’ so-called “right of return”:
Palestinian Media Watch exposed that on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the PA stressed to school children that all of Israel is “Palestine” and that Jews/Israelis have “no right.”
Finally, the use of the map of “Palestine” erasing Israel was explained explicitly in this recent video from an official in Fatah, the PA’s ruling party:
Fatah Tubas Branch Secretary Mahmoud Sawafta: “This mighty people is loyal to the blood that is drawing the map of the precious homeland. The map of Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Lod, and Ramle [i.e., all Israeli cities], and the map of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the capital Jerusalem.”
[Official PA TV News, Nov. 11, 2024]
Itamar Marcus is the Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), where Ephraim D. Tepler and Nan Zilberdik are on staff. A version of this article appears at PMW.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Trump Is Lying When He Speaks of Peace
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with government officials in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2025. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Donald Trump on Saturday of lying when the US president said during his Gulf tour this week that he wanted peace in the region.
On the contrary, said Khamenei, the United States uses its power to give “10-ton bombs to the Zionist (Israeli) regime to drop on the heads of Gaza’s children.”
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the United Arab Emirates on Friday that Iran had to move quickly on a US proposal for its nuclear program or “something bad’s going to happen.”
His remarks, said Khamenei, “aren’t even worth responding to.” They are an “embarrassment to the speaker and the American people,” Khamenei added.
“Undoubtedly, the source of corruption, war, and conflict in this region is the Zionist regime — a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor that must be uprooted; it will be uprooted,” he said at an event at a religious center in Tehran, according to state media.
Earlier on Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Trump speaks about peace while simultaneously making threats.
“Which should we believe?” Pezeshkian said at a naval event in Tehran. “On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing.”
Tehran would continue Iran-US nuclear talks but is not afraid of threats. “We are not seeking war,” Pezeshkian said.
While Trump said on Friday that Iran had a US proposal about its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received any such proposal. “There is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to (uranium) enrichment for peaceful purposes…” he said.
Araqchi warned on Saturday that Washington’s constant change of stance prolongs nuclear talks, state TV reported.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that America repeatedly defines a new framework for negotiations that prolongs the process,” the broadcast quoted Araqchi as saying.
Pezeshkian said Iran would not “back down from our legitimate rights”.
“Because we refuse to bow to bullying, they say we are source of instability in the region,” he said.
A fourth round of Iran-U.S. talks ended in Oman last Sunday. A new round has not been scheduled yet.
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Hamas Confirms New Gaza Ceasefire Talks with Israel in Qatar on Saturday
Doha, Qatar. Photo: StellarD via Wikimedia Commons.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel is underway in Qatar’s Doha, Hamas official Taher al-Nono told Reuters on Saturday.
He said the two sides were discussing all issues without “pre-conditions.”
Nono said Hamas was “keen to exert all the effort needed” to help mediators make the negotiations a success, adding there was “no certain offer on the table.”
The negotiations come despite Israel preparing to expand operations in the Gaza Strip as they seek “operational control” in some areas of the war-torn enclave.
The return to negotiations also comes after US President Donald Trump ended a Middle East tour on Friday with no apparent progress towards a new ceasefire, although he acknowledged Gaza’s growing hunger crisis and the need for aid deliveries.
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Report: ICC’s Khan Goes on Administrative Leave Amid Sexual Misconduct Probe
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
i24 News – Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan has stepped down temporarily as an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct by United Nations investigators is nearing its final phase, Reuters reported on Friday citing sources from the international court.
Khan allegedly forced sexual intercourse upon a member of staff on multiple occasions, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, linking the allegations to Khan’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.
A statement is expected later today announcing that Khan is going on administrative leave, according to a source in the prosecutor’s office.
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