Kids at Islamic Jihad kindergarten
celebrate end of year by demonstrating how Palestinian prisoners are 'tortured'
in Israel. Teacher: We educate them to love resistance, Palestine
Elior Levy
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Children attending a kindergarten in Gaza that
is run by Islamic Jihad celebrated their graduation by dressing up in army
attire, waving toy rifles and chanting anti-Israel slogans.
"It is our obligation to educate the children
to love the resistance, Palestine and Jerusalem, so they will recognize the
importance of Palestine and who its enemy is," the kindergarten's director
said.
The children were dressed up in uniforms of Jihad's
armed-wing, the al-Quds Brigades, and each of them received a toy rifle. Some
of them held up photos of Islamic Jihad founder Fathi Shaqaqi.
The event was attended by the children's relatives,
some of whom belong to Islamic Jihad and other armed Palestinian factions.
During the ceremony the children were asked to
stand next to mock coffins draped with flags of the various armed factions. The
flags bore the images of "shahids (martyrs)."
One child, Hamza, said "When I grow up I'll
join Islamic Jihad and the al-Quds Brigades. I'll fight the Zionist enemy and
fire missiles at it until I die as a shahid and join my father in heaven.
"I love the resistance and the martyrs and Palestine, and I want to
blow myself up on Zionists and kill them on a bus in a suicide bombing,"
he said.
During the ceremony the children "demonstrated" how Israel
treats Palestinian prisoners. In the display, handcuffed children depicting
inmates were placed in cages, with an "Israeli guard" standing
nearby.
Another child depicting an Israeli prison guard placed the head of a
"Palestinian prisoner" in a bucket of water to demonstrate how
Palestinian prisoners are "tortured" in Israel.
"At every kindergarten
graduation ceremony we focus on the children to represent the role of
struggling and resistance in the way of Allah so they will grow up to love the
resistance and serve the cause of Palestine and Holy Jihad, as well as to make
them leaders and fighters to defend the holy soil of Palestine," one of
the teachers said
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