PA TV teaches children to perpetually “dream” of erasing Israel through refugees’ return, a dream that will continue “until they return”
Official PA TV program A Child and a Refugee Camp, about a child named Ali Zaher living in the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon who talks about his grandmother’s village Dir Al-Qasi, which Israel captured in its 1948 War of Independence
Official PA TV children’s program host Walaa Al-Battat: “They told you this is your temporary life. The best is waiting for you in your stolen homeland. You don’t know how the best will look, or how your stolen homeland looks. You wait. You have no choice but to wait…
The chapters of crime were not completed through an additional page stained with the blood of innocents, [as] the Zionist gangs completed their bloody acts in Palestine and arrived at Dir Al-Qasi drunk on their victories.
After the neighboring villages were occupied, the terrorist gangs succeeded in entering Dir Al-Qasi after its heroes fought the Zionist gangs for several hours. After the fighters’ ammunition ran out, Dir Al-Qasi fell…
The great longing that lives on in the hearts of the refugee children in Lebanon is difficult to describe in words, because only [the child] is living it and will continue to live it until he reaches the land of which he was deprived, his land that grew in his heart as images from his imagination and from old photographs that allowed this. A short distance separates him from this land, several meters – several meters away from his great love, his desire, his land of Palestine. Several meters prevent him from reaching his great goal, the tomorrow that he has awaited – several meters and soldiers, weapons, violence, and tanks stand between him and his dream and his right.”
Ali Zaher: “I am sad because my grandmother has not returned to Palestine. She hopes to return, and she will not lose this hope. Even if she won’t return we will return, and Allah willing afterwards we will raise our children so that they have hopes of returning. This is our land in the end, and we cannot relinquish it.”
Amna Zaher, Ali Zaher’s grandmother: “If I don’t return, then my son and grandson will return, Allah willing. Palestine will yet return.”
[Official PA TV, A Child and a Refugee Camp, Feb. 2, 2021]