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Palestinian Summer Camp Teaches Children to Fight for Elimination of Israel
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank, April 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman
This is what Fatah officials told children at Palestinian summer camps this year:
- Children are … “our hope there’ll be a free Arab Palestinian land from the River to the [Sea]”
- “You are the continuation of the Martyrs, prisoners, and fighters [i.e., terrorists] who watered this pure land with their blood”
Fatah summer camp. Children pose with PA map of “Palestine from the River to the Sea.” Fatah logo is upper right.
Fatah’s declared goals with its summer camps for Palestinian children is to stress that “Palestine” stretches “from the River to the Sea,” and to teach them how to be terrorists.
Last week, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) exposed the “Fatah Army” summer camp whose purpose Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary-General Muhammad Hamdan stated is “to prepare a national generation that will … continue the path of the Martyrs and prisoners.”
In plain English, this means preparing generation that will continue to carry out terror attacks against Israelis.
One of the coordinators of Fatah’s children’s movement has since added another goal: The total elimination of Israel.
Hukm al-Baghdadi stated at a different summer camp that the campers embody the “hope” of a Palestinian state “From the River to the [Sea],” meaning a Palestinian state that completely erases the State of Israel:
Coordinator of Fatah’s Cubs and Flowers Movement in Nablus Hukm al-Baghdadi: “These children and campers are our hope, our hope that there will be a free Arab Palestinian land from the [Jordan] River to the river [sic., Mediterranean Sea]” [emphasis added]
Posted text: “The conclusion of the ‘Flowers of Hope and Cubs of Freedom’ [summer] camp at the [Fatah] Nablus Branch.”
[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Aug. 23, 2025]
Inaugurating another summer camp, Hamdan described the camps as “national schools” whose aim is “raising a generation that … continues the path of the Martyrs and prisoners,” again stressing that Palestinian kids are taught and expected to become terrorists.
In fact, they are “the natural continuation of the path of the Martyrs, prisoners, and fighters [i.e., terrorists] who watered this pure land with their blood”:
Branch secretary Muhammad Hamdan emphasized the sanctity of the Palestinian land and the people’s right to defend it, saying: ‘You are the revolutionaries of the land and its defenders. You are the natural continuation of the path of the Martyrs, prisoners, and fighters (i.e., terrorists) who watered this pure land with their blood.’
Hamdan added: ‘These camps are national schools for raising a generation that believes in its cause, clings to its land, and continues the path of the Martyrs and prisoners. We instill in you the spirit of belonging to the Fatah Movement, the movement of the Palestinian people, which has been and will remain the guardian of the national project.’
[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Aug. 26, 2025]
Through the summer camp activities, the children are taught to envision a “one state solution” in which Israel becomes “Palestine”:
A boy at the camp paints the PA map of “Palestine” that erases Israel in the colors of the Palestinian flag.
This terror incitement goes unreported in the West, and is the true reason that Israel has no partner for peace.
The author is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this story first appeared.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.