Young girls in Fatah's children's branch mourn Sabra and Shatila massacre with anti-Israel signs
Images and text posted on the Facebook page of “the Lion Cubs and Flowers Institution” – the Fatah Youth Institution for Young Boys and Girls
Posted text: “For the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre (see note below -Ed.), the bloody wound on Sept. 16, 1982
The flowers (i.e., young girls) of the Qalqilya branch [of the Fatah Youth Institution for Young Boys and Girls]”
The image shows children holding signs.
Text on signs from left to right: “This land cannot contain two identities – it is us or us!
(The following is an excerpt from a song; see note below -Ed.)
Do you think that with this you erased my identity, my history, and my beliefs?
Your tries are useless – there’s no death for a rebel.
39 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre
Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine”
The image shows a girl holding a sign.
Text on sign: “O Sabra, your wound is bleeding, and your land – its color is red, from the color of your children’s blood”
The image shows a girl holding a sign.
Text on sign: “The 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre”
Sabra and Shatila are Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. In 1982, during the first Lebanon War, Muslim residents of the camps were massacred by Christian Phalangists. The PA has a longstanding policy of falsely accusing Israel of committing the massacre or actively helping to carry it out.
The following is a longer excerpt of the song cited on a sign carried by one of the children:
“Do you think that you, when you burned me,
Danced like a devil on my body, and let the winds scatter me [...]
Do you think that with this you erased my identity,
My history, and my beliefs?
Your tries are useless – there’s no death for a rebel.”