The interviews are damning, but not really different from similar reporting by David Bedein some ten years ago exposing UNRWA teaching hate and antisemitism.
The Palestinian Authority is very upset at this evidence that makes UNRWA look bad to the world.
So they are attacking UN Watch - for supposedly performing a war crime by interviewing children!
The use of children in war is a crime and is considered an ugly form of exploitation
The Israeli occupation's targeting of Palestinian children has gone beyond killing, arresting and depriving them of their basic rights, to another ugly exploitation of their innocence, to mislead world public opinion and incite against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).The Israeli organization [sic] "UN Watch" , which specializes in attacking the United Nations and UNRWA, recently produced a number of videos and published them on its page, in which Palestinian minors appear, exploiting their spontaneous speech and without the presence of their parents, to incite against UNRWA, distort the facts and label it as terrorism.The text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child states in Article No. (16) states: “ No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation. The child has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”
The [PA] Department of Refugee Affairs ... considered these materials a serious violation of the child’s right to express his opinions freely without pressure, misleading or extortion, and in a manner that does not serve his best interests, as stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and what they represent in terms of exploitation of children in an immoral, illegal and inhumane manner, and a serious violation of national and international laws.
Of course, interviewing kids does not violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
However, we have seen countless videos of even much younger children being interviewed on Palestinian TV saying the exact same things.
Very young children playing "The Martyrs Game:"
"Whoever has a rifle, shoot a Jew!"
Here we see Jordanian schoolchildren supporting Hamas attacks on Jews, telling Hamas "You are the cannon and we are the bullets."
As far as I know, most Palestinian schoolchildren in Jordan attend UNRWA schools up to 10th grade.
