Young children hold real assault rifles during PA Security Forces program

Images and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture

The images show Palestinian children in military uniforms holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle, with a picture of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat behind them.

Posted text: “Pictures of the children Yasser Arafat MajdAbu Sharar and Mahmoud Abbas Majd Abu Sharar from Nablus during training on coexistence with the Palestinian [PA] National Security Forces in Jenin (refers to programs in which PA Security Forces meet with civilians -Ed.).”

Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign - the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.