Israel Steps Up ‘Children War’ Against Palestinians

Monday, March 29, 2004
IslamOnline.net

"The aim is to post such photos in order to submit evidence of the inhumanity of Palestinians in front of the world public opinion, as they send their own children to cruel fate, with the hope of weakening the world support to the Palestinian struggle."

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Israeli media has embarked on a new stage of distorting the Palestinian resistance image, accusing Palestinian resistance fighters of making use of children and minors to execute bombing operations; a matter categorically denied by Palestinian families and factions as being "an Israeli intelligence fabrication."

Quds Press News Agency has unveiled Sunday, March 28, that Israeli media has lately been making up “perfect stories” about Palestinian children, who have been allegedly sent to blow up themselves, and their entrapped school bags.

The news agency declared that a number of Palestinian analysts and concerned bodies in Nablus have been astonished at the call made by resistance fighters to explode themselves.

"Israeli circles stress that there are large numbers of Palestinian youths who impatiently wait their turn to execute such martyrdom operations against occupation targets… How are the youth and children made use of in such a way?" They wondered, according to Israeli media.

Responsible sources in Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades, an offshoot of Fatah Movement, as well as some eyewitnesses underlined that, "arresting Hussam Abdu, 16, is a new fabrication of the Israeli intelligence."

They reiterated that the aim is to "send a horrible message to the world to the effect that Palestinians urge their children to kill themselves, in order to negatively affect the Palestinian morale and weaken the world support to the Palestinian cause."

On Sunday, March 28, Gideon Levy, columnist for Israel’s mass circulation daily Ha’aretz – commenting on Hussam story - slammed “the cheap attempt to win points on the international public relations front from the picture of the child” as “ridiculous”, stressing “the world knows that Israel's hands are not clean, that they are stained with the blood of children”.

Different Israeli media have largely focused on displaying several photos of the arrest process of Hussam last week on the Israeli Hawara checkpoint, east of Nablus. Such photos have shown the child wearing explosive belt.

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