Unable to stop the destruction, Palestinians want to preserve the identity of their land

RAFAH, June 4 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Seeking to reserve the Palestinian identity in the face of Israeli attempts, the Parliament of the southern Gaza town of Rafah called upon the media not to use the " Philadelphi Route " term adopted by the Israeli occupation troops for Saladin Route , a borderline between Palestinian and Egyptian territories.

In a statement released by the London-based Middle East newspaper Thursday June 3, the Parliament said that the Israeli occupation still targets the history and culture of Palestine and works to obliterate the name of the southern entrance into Palestine , through changing the Saladin Route into Philadelphi Route .

The Small Parliament is a Rafah-based institution composed of 60 Palestinian children and licensed by the Legislative Council.

According to the chairman of the institution Abdel-Raouf Barbakh, 35, the children have leased the parliament headquarters from their own pocket money.

They hold weekly meetings and take decisions to be referred to the concerned bodies. The children also agree on several events to demonstrate how horrible the Israeli occupation is.

The occupation troops claim the arms-smuggling operations to the Palestinian resistance in Gaza are conducted through Saladin Route neighboring the Egyptian borders. The Israeli Premier has been keen on maintaining control over such a route in case of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza .

Imposing Media Language

Israel seeks to impose its own terms on the mass media, as it has repeatedly sought to change the name of Al-Aqsa Mosque into "Temple Mount" and the Boraq Wall into the "Waling Wall".

In this context, the BBC had demanded its correspondents not to describe the Israeli killings of Palestinian activists as assassinations.

"The term (assassination) should be used to describe incidents in which senior political officials are killed; otherwise, there are several terms to be used for the killing of civilians," BBC said.

Confronting these allegations, the Arabic media has called for the necessity of using the term "violence" instead of Israeli aggression so that people may realize who the aggressor is and who the defendant is.

As for the term "terrorist", used by Israeli newspapers and a large number of western papers to describe Palestinians who carry out resistance attacks against Israel , several mass media have previously called for not using it and using "patriot" and "martyr" terms instead.

There is a great difference between those defending their own rights and the terrorists who use ungrounded or unjustifiable force.