15 May 2026

Israel’s Attacks on the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre and its Demonisation of Palestinian Children - Webinar

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Defend Palestine's Children - Defend the Al Tafawk Kindergarten Against the Israeli Army 14.5.26


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The Al Tafawk Children’s Centre which we have been supporting for 7 years is now under constant military harassment with the IDF entering the Centre at will, with guns pointed at staff. That is why we held a webinar last night with a range of speakers. Now we need to build solidarity with Al Tafawk.

The Children of Al Tafawk

The Al Tafawk Centre was established in 2010 in Jenin Refugee Camp. In January 2025 the refugee camp was demolished and with it the Al Tafawk Centre.

With much difficulty the Centre set up anew in the centre of Jenin city. However the harassment has continued and increased. In essence any Palestinian civil society organisation is seen by Israel as a threat to it as it seeks to ethnically cleanse the whole of the West Bank.

Only the Monsters of the IDF could torture an 18 month old child by stubbing their cigarettes out on him

In 2021 and 2023 the Israeli Defence Forces entered the Centre and wrecked its interior.  See:

Why did Israel raid and wreck a children’s centre in Jenin? 5.7.21.

Palestinian children in the West Bank are also under attack 14.11.23.

Speakers at the webinar, which was chaired by Ghada Karmi, a well known Palestinian author an academic, included Khaled Quzmar from DCI‑ Palestine, a charity dedicated to protecting children which was declared a terrorist organisation in 2021.

Samer Jaber, a former Child Prisoner  in Palestine who now lives in England spoke of the trauma that still haunts him.

Karen, a former English volunteer at the Centre spoke of her experiences at the Centre and the situation they face and then Mona, the Manager/Head Teacher spoke about how desperate the situation was. Mona herself has been assaulted by the IDF on numerous occasions.

The holes that the IDF created in the walls of the old Al Tafawk Centre

Naomi Wayne, a trustees from the British Shalom-Salaam Trust, a Jewish charity, also spoke about the help that her charity had given the Al Tafawk centre and finally Tony Greenstein of the Brighton Trust spoke.

Everyone who I spoke to afterwards described the webinar and the speakers as extremely moving. It is one of the most despicable things about the Israeli occupation that they target even the youngest children for their brutality and sadism.

In my speech I compared the behaviour and attitude of the Nazis with the behaviour and attitudes of the Zionists.

On October 4 in a speech to senior SS Generals, Heinrich Himmler explained why the Nazis were also exterminating Jewish children:

I did not assume to have the right to exterminate the men… and have the avengers personified in the children to become adults for our children and grandchildren.

Compare this with Rabbi Eliyahu Mali of the Bnei Moshe pre-military yeshiva whose students go off to serve in the IDF. In response to a question about whether it was right to exterminated children as well as adults he replied:

Today's terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,... It's not only the 14 or 16-year-old boy, the 20 or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There's really no difference

The Zionists compare the Palestinians to the Nazis and cry ‘anti-Semitism’ at the drop of a hat.  But the real comparison today is between the Nazis and their Zionist progeny in Israel.

I am thinking that in order to bring pressure to bear on Israel that we should form a Friends of Al Tafawk.  Anyone interested in this please contact me at tonygreenstein111@gmail.com.

Please take time to watch the video and if you can afford it please donate to the Centre.

Tony Greenstein

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