Illustrative: A group of Palestinian children being taught that Israel will be destroyed. Photo: Palestinian Media Watch.

A Palestinian Authority (PA) school had its first graders perform a skit portraying Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian laborers who came to work in Israel.

The skit shows Israeli soldiers seeing the Palestinian workers, and then the Israeli soldiers murdering them.

The skit then shows medical workers taking the bodies, covering them, and dragging them away:

The school, in southern Hebron, explained that the skit was performed under school supervision:

Posted text: “A theatrical skit by first-grade students expressing the extent of the Palestinian laborers’ suffering in going to their workplaces in the occupied Interior [i.e., Palestinian term for Israel], under the supervision of teacher Samira Masalmeh.”

[Dalal Mughrabi Coed Elementary School, Facebook page, May 25, 2025]

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has reported that demonizing Israelis and Jews as sub-humans, monsters, and cold-blooded killers has been standard PA children’s education for decades.

The skit was performed by first-graders at the Dalal Mughrabi Coed Elementary School, named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the murder of 37 Israeli civilians in 1978.

Murderer Dalal Mughrabi has been turned into a role model by the PA, especially for girls. PMW has exposed that at least five PA schools are named after her.

Contrary to this skit demonizing Israelis, PMW has reported for many years that the PA itself admits that Palestinian laborers prefer to work for Israelis because they receive much higher salaries, and are protected by the same labor laws that protect Israelis, including paid sick leave, paid vacation days, and minimum wage, etc.

In fact, the PA condemns Israel whenever it is forced to stop the entry of Palestinian workers because of security concerns.

The author is the Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.