One-third of these killed and injured are children under the age of 18. During this period, the occupying forces have even used heavy weaponry, helicopter gunships and, in many cases, willfully caused a large number of casualties and losses among our people. In addition to all this malignancy, Israel, the occupying Power, attempts to combine all of this with unrelenting attempts to lay the blame on the Palestinian side - to lay the blame on those who have been killed and injured. Occupation is to be forgotten. Colonial behavior is to be forgotten.
Heavy weaponry is to be forgotten.
The large number of Palestinian victims, including children, is to be forgotten. And, the Palestinian side must be blamed because it dared to scream. The Palestinian people must be blamed because they have expressed their anger and frustration through demonstrations and throwing stones at the soldiers of occupation. And they can even be accused of things reflective of the racist thinking of the occupying Power, the least accusation of which is that the Palestinian people are instigated and that the leadership intentionally pushes our children to be killed by Israeli fire. Our people saw all of this as a flagrant aggression against their holy places and as a prelude to other steps aimed at undermining their rights and possibly establishing other illegal realities by the occupying Power in East Jerusalem.