The Askar Refugee Camp, located on the outskirts of Nablus, is one of 19 Palestinian refugee camps in Judea and Samaria, controlled and maintained by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which benefits from a whopping budget of $1. 6 billion, flowing from 67 donor countries and 33 international NGOs. 58% of that budget funds the UNRWA school system, which emphasizes and promotes the return as the underlying principle for its operations, its very reason for being.
We were expelled from Jaffa. Today we are talking about our right to return and our right to return to Jaffa, Haifa, Lod and Ramallah. We will be back, very soon! Whatever happens, there will be no peace.
What do they teach you in school about the right of return?
We must sacrifice ourselves and become martyrs. And everyone must protect our land. We will get our rights. With Allah's help they [the Jews] will all die. Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine. It will remain ours forever. And the settlers will all be executed.
Oh my home! Patience, despite the time. There is no doubt that we will return, despite the long journey.
The key to the home (from which we were expelled) is in our hands and I promise you that we will return.
I learn in school about my right to return to my homeland. We will free Palestine and sacrifice martyrs to free Palestine.
We will uplift your name, O Palestine! Return! Return! Return!
I am Nu Al-Masimi, director of the Asifah summer camp (Fatah organization) in the Askar refugee camp. Every summer the popular committee of the camp holds a summer camp. We divide the children into 4 groups. Each group is named after a Shahid [martyr] from the camp in order to cherish the legacy of the Shahid. The children will learn about heroism from the martyrs and continue the path of struggle. They have great motivation. Every child is ready to be a martyr. To preserve the principles of the struggle, such as "the right of return." With Allah's blessings, a stronger Intifada will break out. And these children will take command.
The delusion of refugees going back to homes they left in the wake of the 1948 war, homes which are long gone, has turned into the source, the motivation, and the promoter of the armed rebellion against the Jews.
Askar is the smallest of the refugee camps in Judea and Samaria, yet stands out as the camp with the highest amount of Palestinians engaged in terror activity in relation to the number of its inhabitants, including the highest number of shahids, armed terrorists killed in the act of murder, and the largest number of convicts serving life imprisonment for murder.
Askar refugee camp is a fighting camp, a struggling camp. A camp that produces shahids, one after another. Martyrs of all ages and all political affiliations.
From this refugee camp embarked the Palestinian assassin of brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv from Harbracha, who were killed driving through Huwara in February 2023. It was also home to a 15-year-old terrorist who set out this past April from Askar, armed with a gun, shooting and severely injuring two Jews in Jerusalem. Askar is also home to the three-man terrorist squad who, on April 7, 2023, murdered Lucy D. and her two daughters, 15-year-old Reina and 20-year-old Maya, in a drive-by shooting.
The perpetrators of these heinous killings are hailed today as heroes in the Askar refugee camp. As soon as the murder of this Jewish woman and her two young daughters became known, sweets were handed out on the streets of Askar as an expression of happiness and triumph.
The funeral of Hassan Qatanani, the terrorist who pulled the gun on the D family, grew into a huge rally of support, which consisted of everyone from the Askar refugee camp as they celebrated the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel.
We want to fight! We want weapons!
Who is the hero of the camp? Hassan Qatanani.
Why?
He carried out an act by force of arms. First he defended his homeland and his honor and restored our self respect, after being expelled from our land and took our land.
Who are these in the pictures?
Ibrahim Nabulsi and Wadiha Al-Hawa, Abdullah Kosri, Ahmed Saadi.
Who are they?
They were killed as martyrs.
All the people who live in the camp are heroes: for example, Saleh Sabra and Hassan Qatanani. There are many martyrs in the camp.
We send greetings to our fighting brothers and we ask Allah to protect each of the fighters. Cheers to Askar Brigade Jenin Brigade and Balata Brigade [the armed fighters]. This is my uncle, may Allah have mercy on his soul. He became a martyr. Killed on 22/10/2022.
How and where was he killed?
Performed and armed attack at the Huwara checkpoint.
Posters with pictures of the killers were plastered in every corner of Askar, while songs of praise for the murderers were composed in their honor. Askar's UNRWA summer camps were even named for these murderers.
My hero is Ibrahaim Nabulsi [He was the commander of "The Lion's Den"]. He was not only wanted. He pursued the army everywhere. I love Ibrahim. He was the commander of all Nablus youth, including the children.
My hero is the martyr Abdullah al-Khushriya [the killer of the Yaniv brothers, Hillel and Yagel]. He scared them and eliminated them. He was imprisoned, wounded and became a shahid. I love him because he was a warrior and he defended his homeland.
The family of Hassan Qatanani was congratulated with pride and approval that their son had the honor to kill a Jewish woman and her two young daughters while driving in their car to meet family members during the Passover holiday. They expressed their hope and wish that the terrorist's young children would go in the footsteps of their father and merit to become holy shahid, just like their blessed father. The terrorist's mother expressed herself in her own way.
We must kill the Jews in our country and in our village, with our bare hands. To kill them with our teeth. With our teeth we will eat the Jews. Because the Jews have always been our enemies.
Allah bless me so that I may raise them and they will be as Allah wills and as my husband Hasan has willed. May they know the Quran, be righteous, walk the straight path and they will perform jihad for the sake of Allah.
We must all follow the ways of jihad, because it is obligatory upon us.
Memorial ceremonies for holy martyrs and festivals celebrate the release of terrorists from prison at weddings and family celebrations, accompanied by shooting rifles and pistols. Hundreds of Askar youth take part in these ceremonies, including children and young adolescents, absorbing the message of blind hatred so that they, too, can become the killers and shahids of the future.
The amount of weapons in the Askar refugee camp are huge. Askar now boasts at least 200 wanted terrorists just waiting to commit the next acts of murder.
This is how the right of return, the reason for being of UNRWA, has become a source of lethal violence that surpasses the organization's hollow slogans for peace. The time has come for donor nations to think again about blind support for UNRWA.
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Reminder that "Palestine" is and aways was Israel. "Palestine" as a word isn't even possible in Arabic. These people came from Egypt, Syria and Jordan. One of the most common family names is "Al-Masri," which literally means "the Egyptian."
