A U.N. and Palestinian Authority-funded children’s center in eastern Jerusalem has put on a puppet show encouraging children to give up smoking cigarettes and instead become machine-gun toting men who liberate Jerusalem from the Jews.

A U.N. and Palestinian Authority-funded children’s center in eastern Jerusalem has put on a puppet show encouraging children to give up smoking cigarettes and instead become machine-gun toting men who liberate Jerusalem from the Jews.

According to Palestinian Media Watch, which translated a video of the event, a Palestinian NGO called the Burj Luq-Luq Social Center Society performed a puppet show for children in East Jerusalem to promote non-smoking. The “educational” message delivered by the puppets instructed children to replace cigarettes with machine guns:

Puppet: "I, and many other youth like me, think that cigarettes will help us to grow, to turn into men. Jerusalem doesn´t need men who hold cigarettes. It needs men who hold machine guns, not cigarettes."

The puppet show also glorified death and violence and educated children to see Jews as "enemies" who kill Palestinian children:

Puppet: "I wanted to stand before the audience and sing to Jerusalem, which is being kept from us. Jerusalem, whose youth are being killed by the Jews, to sing and to say: Jerusalem, we are coming, Jerusalem, the time of death has arrived, Jerusalem, we will not surrender to the enemies or be humiliated."

Palestinian Media Watch reported that a video of the puppet show appeared on the organization´s homepage and "partners" page. According to the website, the Burj Luq-Luq Social Center Society is or has been supported by various branches of the U.N., including UNICEF and UNESCO, as well as Arab countries, the Palestinian Authority’s Youth and Sports Ministry and international donors, including "the French consulate, the Swiss Development Agency, the Youth Development Department, which belongs to the Association of Arab Studies the ´Orient House,´ the Italian Institutions Union, the Faisal Husseini Institute [and] UNFPA."