Official Palestinian Authority television broadcasted a controversial video last week that showed a father trying to get his son shot by Israeli troops, but deleted the scene in which the boy didn’t listen to instructions and high-fived the Israeli soldier instead, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported on Monday.

In the original video, the father is seen urging his young son, who looks to be around three years old, to throw rocks at the Israeli troops, an action that sometimes results in the soldiers firing back. Instead, the boy threw the rocks away, high-fived the soldier, and then shook his hand. However, the PA’s official broadcast deleted the high-five and handshake.

The narration on PA television further distorts matters by saying, “His son, who has yet to reach the age of five, also knows, despite his young age, that it is forbidden to shake hands with the soldiers, just as it is forbidden to make peace with them.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a taped address on Wednesday that the original video “shook me to the core of my being.” Netanyahu said he was affected by how the Palestinian father tried vainly to provoke his son into confronting the Israeli troops. “Encouraging someone to murder a child – let alone your own child – is probably the most inhumane thing a person can do.” The boy “should be in a playground,” Netanyahu said. “He should be in the sun, laughing with other children.”

Netanyahu noted that the incident was not an an isolated one:

In Gaza, Hamas runs summer camps that teach children to value death over life – suicide kindergarten camps.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education in Ramallah recently organized an event for students to honor terrorists who murdered three civilians.

Two weeks ago, the Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper praised teenage terrorists and wrote that ‘death as a martyr is the path to excellence and greatness.’ That’s a direct quote.

After calling on “every father and the mother in the world” to deplore the use of children as “cannon fodder,” Netanyahu explained why Palestinian incitement remains a major obstacle to peace. “Peace begins with respect,” he said. “If parents don’t respect their own children’s lives, how will they respect the lives of their neighbors?”

A complete video of Netanyahu’s remarks is embedded below:

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