Fox News Report on Hamas TV Dramatization of Reem Riyashi's Daughter
Fox News reports on a Hamas TV dramatization exposed by Palestinian Media Watch in which female suicide terrorist Reem Riyashi’s four-year old daughter unknowingly watches her mother prepare for a suicide bombing. When the daughter hears of her mother’s attack, she vows to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Reem Riyashi killed four Israelis in a suicide bombing in 2004. The reporter discusses the disturbing Hamas trend of promoting violence and suicide bombing to young children.
TV anchorman: “Meet the next generation of suicide bombers. She’s just four years old and praising her mother as she goes out to blow herself up. It is all a reenactment made for Hamas TV. The preschool-aged little girl watching mom strap on a bomb belt, then singing about how she wants to follow in her murderous footsteps.
Laura Ingle live tonight in the New York newsroom. Laura.”
Laura Ingle: “Well U.S. military experts are calling a new music video promoting terrorist tots both alarming and heartbreaking. Suicide bombers who blow up the innocent are encouraging and instructing the most innocent of their society to do the same. As we take a look at this video, the new video being shown on Al-Aqsa TV, the official broadcast station of the new Palestinian prime minister, shows a reenactment of Reem Salah Al-Riyashi’s last days alive as she walks around her house getting ready for her day. She looks like she’s ready to go to work and maybe into town, but what she’s really doing is suiting up to detonate herself and others at a Gaza border crossing. The little girl in this reenactment follows her mother around singing asking if the hidden explosives under her robe are maybe a present for her. Later, after her mother blows herself up, the little girl actress opens up a drawer to find sticks of dynamite and says ‘I will follow mommy in her footsteps.’”
Col. David Hunt (ret) – Military analyst: “It’s disheartening and shows the level of brutality and terror and horror that one people will do to another. It’s absolutely disgusting.”
Laura Ingle: “Members of the Anti-Defamation League say militant Hamas has glorified suicide bombers before but the new startling images of children handling guns, explosives and singing about becoming future suicide bombers seems to be an all new low. And there’s more. According to published reports, the real four year old daughter of this woman recently gave a TV interview saying that her mother is in Paradise. The little girl is apparently all too willing to follow in her footsteps.”
Click on the following link to view the Hamas TV clip:
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=338&fld_id=338&doc_id=1240
Click on the following link to view an interview with Reem Riyashi’s children on a Hamas TV children’s program:
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=111&fld_id=111&doc_id=1021
TV anchorman: “Meet the next generation of suicide bombers. She’s just four years old and praising her mother as she goes out to blow herself up. It is all a reenactment made for Hamas TV. The preschool-aged little girl watching mom strap on a bomb belt, then singing about how she wants to follow in her murderous footsteps.
Laura Ingle live tonight in the New York newsroom. Laura.”
Laura Ingle: “Well U.S. military experts are calling a new music video promoting terrorist tots both alarming and heartbreaking. Suicide bombers who blow up the innocent are encouraging and instructing the most innocent of their society to do the same. As we take a look at this video, the new video being shown on Al-Aqsa TV, the official broadcast station of the new Palestinian prime minister, shows a reenactment of Reem Salah Al-Riyashi’s last days alive as she walks around her house getting ready for her day. She looks like she’s ready to go to work and maybe into town, but what she’s really doing is suiting up to detonate herself and others at a Gaza border crossing. The little girl in this reenactment follows her mother around singing asking if the hidden explosives under her robe are maybe a present for her. Later, after her mother blows herself up, the little girl actress opens up a drawer to find sticks of dynamite and says ‘I will follow mommy in her footsteps.’”
Col. David Hunt (ret) – Military analyst: “It’s disheartening and shows the level of brutality and terror and horror that one people will do to another. It’s absolutely disgusting.”
Laura Ingle: “Members of the Anti-Defamation League say militant Hamas has glorified suicide bombers before but the new startling images of children handling guns, explosives and singing about becoming future suicide bombers seems to be an all new low. And there’s more. According to published reports, the real four year old daughter of this woman recently gave a TV interview saying that her mother is in Paradise. The little girl is apparently all too willing to follow in her footsteps.”
[Fox News, March 21, 2007]
Click on the following link to view the Hamas TV clip:
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=338&fld_id=338&doc_id=1240
Click on the following link to view an interview with Reem Riyashi’s children on a Hamas TV children’s program:
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=111&fld_id=111&doc_id=1021