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Tunisia – Kuwait – Cairo ـ A few weeks shaped the awareness of Arab children about the Palestinian issue, which most of them knew nothing about except a few words in textbooks. However, the Al-Aqsa flood operation that broke out on the seventh of last October made the issue the primary focus of attention for that age group.
When the children saw their generation and their lashes in the Gaza Strip among the martyrs, the injured, and the displaced, many questions floated on their tongues, such as: Why are they killing them? Why don’t we support them? How do we help them?
The steadfastness of the resistance and the people of Gaza in the face of the Israeli war machine also made Arab children participate for the first time in boycott campaigns, drawing the Palestinian flag and pictures of Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), as one of the symbols of steadfastness for them, and they also chanted songs. Palestinian patriotism, as hardly an Arab house is free from singing the most famous Palestinian patriotic song, “My Blood is Palestinian.”
Tasnim is a Tunisian girl no more than six years old and studying in the first grade. Despite her young age, she has become a staunch supporter of the Palestinian right in her school, which she knew only small details about from her teachers and mother, but the scenes of children and crimes that she saw on her father’s mobile phone and on television made her She becomes more interested in the case and asks her mother about the reasons for what is happening.
The child’s mother, Tasnim, says, “Gaza news became Tasnim’s main concern at home, and she began drawing the Palestinian flag everywhere and on the faces of her brothers. She even told them stories from her imagination in which Palestine represented good and Israel evil, and concluded with the victory of good.”
When asked about what is happening currently, Tasneem said with great emotion, “Our country, Palestine, is Muslim, and Israel wants to take it from us, so it is killing children in Gaza.”
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Regarding the impact of war on children, political analyst Murad Allala told Al Jazeera Net that what the Palestinian people are exposed to today negatively affects the psychology of young people in Palestine and the Arab world, and adds that it instills in them at the same time many positive values and principles, and reveals the facts before them that lead to… Serving the future of the Palestinian cause.
Alala added, “Today’s youth in Palestine and the Arab world must be regulated. They are the safety valve of the issue and are entrusted with preserving the rights of the Palestinian people. The generation of stones is the one who today holds the initiative, and the Al-Aqsa flood generation is the one who will continue to achieve the goals of the Palestinian revolution until the establishment of an independent state of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.” The honorable.”
In Kuwait, thousands of miles away from Tasnim, seven-year-old Malika Mahmoud returned from her school crying, and when her father asked her, the answer was that her classmates shouted at her when they saw in her hand a bag of “chips” (potato chips) included in the boycott list.
Malika’s father says that his daughter told him while crying how much she loves Palestine, and that she confirmed this to her colleagues, adding that she bought the product in the morning without realizing, due to her young age, that it was among the products to be boycotted.
The incident, as the father sees it, is promising and reflects how the ongoing aggression against Gaza shapes the awareness of children of his daughter’s age, some of whom may hear the name Palestine or Jerusalem for the first time.
Affirmation of solidarity
Since the start of the aggression on Gaza, Kuwaiti schools have been organizing activities to support the Palestinian cause, including protests inside schools, as well as organizing speech festivals to support the steadfastness of the people of Gaza, affirm solidarity with them, and introduce the Palestinian cause.
The vigils held in Al-Irada Square in the capital, Kuwait, witnessed remarkable participation from children who were keen to express their solidarity with their peers who were victims of the aggression against Gaza.
And according to Khader Al-Baron, professor of psychology at Kuwait University, said that the aggression against Gaza has a very bad impact on the children of the Gaza Strip, who face death daily, in addition to many of them losing their fathers or brothers, the destruction of their schools and play places, and other effects of the aggression.
The Baron adds to Al Jazeera Net that these events will create children vulnerable to many psychological illnesses as a result of this hateful aggression, and they will undoubtedly seek ways to take revenge on the enemy, as well as a feeling of anger towards those who failed them.
Extreme sympathy
At the level of children from Arab countries, Al-Baron believes that many of them may have heard about the Palestinian issue for the first time through current events, which creates in many of them a state of intense sympathy for their peers who are exposed to aggression and killing.
According to Baron, the awareness of these people is now being shaped by their follow-up of what is happening, and it is important for parents to pay great attention to explaining what is happening and conveying to them the suffering of the brothers in Palestine in a simplified way that suits the age stage, as well as developing their sense of participation by supporting the brothers in Palestine, even if it is a part of Their daily expenses to keep the issue alive in their minds.
In Cairo, the child Youssef wants to obtain a gun to defend the children of Gaza after witnessing the fall of thousands of children as martyrs as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing. Since the outbreak of the war, Youssef has been drawing the Palestinian flag next to the Egyptian flag as an expression of his innate solidarity with the cause.
When Maher, Youssef’s father, realized that the impact of the events on his son needed a way to release the child’s burden and anger, he displayed his child’s drawings of Palestine on his social media accounts, showing him the reactions of his friends to them. He was happy and felt that he was not helpless, and now he had done something.
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As for eight-year-old Maryam, she keeps on her father’s phone a picture of Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Qassam Book, so she can accept it from time to time as a symbol of Palestinian steadfastness.
Salem Hussein, Maryam’s father, says that when he asked his daughter whether she thought Abu Ubaida was scary because he was masked, she answered him that she loved him “because he is a good and righteous hero and because he defends the Palestinians, and he also speaks Arabic like us.”
In turn, Egyptian political analyst Ammar Ali Hassan confirmed that the entire scene is reshaping children’s awareness of the Palestinian issue, after it was planned for it to disappear and be forgotten by everyone.
In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Hassan said that the children of Egypt are asking innocent and logical questions about these bloody scenes about truth and justice and all the values that they learn and that are shattered by what they see.
The researcher specializing in political sociology seemed confident that these painful scenes instill in the awareness and conscience of children sympathy for the tragedy of their relatives in Palestine, and discussion about it, which will contribute to the birth of a generation linked to the issue as soon as the day of Palestine’s liberation occurs.
Hassan concluded that the steadfastness of the men, women and children of Palestine imprinted images of heroism in the minds and hearts of children, and those who remained steadfast in Gaza became an ideal for children.
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