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Hamas animation mocks Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit

Hamas TV cartoon:
Gilad Shalit: "Mommy!"
Hamas child: "Who is it? Gilad [Shalit]? [Laughing] Poor you! You've been rotting here for 3 years, and no one cares.”
Shalit: "Please release me!"
Hamas child: "Are you asking me to be a collaborator and a traitor, that I'll betray my people and my homeland? Are you crazy!"
Shalit: "I have an idea: You [Hamas] go and capture more soldiers, they [Israelis] will be afraid and accept your terms to free me."
Hamas child: "Ah, they will free you not because they love you, but to prevent anxiety among your soldiers, so they won't be afraid, and stop their military service."
Shalit: "True."
Hamas child: "Gilad, stay here, and pray that [Hamas] succeeds in capturing another [soldier], so you'll be freed. Bye."
Shalit: "Mommy! Mommy! (in Hebrew) Free me!"

"Produced by the Children's Department, Al-Aqsa satellite channel."

Al Aqsa TV (Hamas)

July 6, 2009

(2 min)