Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), July 3, 2009.
In a special broadcast of a Hamas TV children’s program, the two young children of female suicide terrorist Reem Riyashi were invited to the TV studio to watch a video re-enactment of their mother’s suicide bombing in 2004, which killed four Israelis.
Hamas hosts children of suicide terrorist Reem Riyashi
“[Our guests are] the children of the Shahida [Martyr] Reem Riyashi.”
(Children in Hamas studio are shown video reenactment of terrorist Reem Riyashi preparing for suicide bombing in front of daughter; singer asks in the daughter’s name:)
“Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?”
(Reem prepares bomb.)
“A toy or a present for me?”
(Mother hides bomb.)
“Comb back quickly, Mommy.”
(Camera on children watching reenactment.)
“Instead of me you carried a bomb in your hands. Only now, I know what was more precious than us.”
(Reenactment of encounter with Israeli soldiers and suicide bombing.)
(In the studio:) “These are the children of the Shahida [Martyr], the heroic Jihad fighter who sacrificed all that she had for her homeland. She cared less about her own flesh and blood, and for their sake, she sacrificed [herself] for Allah.”
(Child host:) “We say to the occuper that we will continue in the footsteps of the Shahida [Martyr], the Jihad fighter Reem Riyashi, until we liberate our homeland from your hands, usurper.”
