The BBC is reporting that a beloved Mickey Mouse© clone who entertained Palestinian children on the Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa channel has met an untimely death at the hands of Israeli agents before the very eyes of his horrified young fans.
The Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa channel aired the last episode on Friday, showing the character, Farfur, being beaten to death by an "Israeli agent".
"Farfur was martyred defending his land," said the show's presenter Saraa.
While the show had many critics, not only in Israel even among Palestinians, no one could have foreseen that it would come to this.
In the final broadcast an actor said to be an Israeli agent tries to buy the land of the squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike.
Farfur brands the Israeli a "terrorist" and is beaten to death.
The first signs of this sort of conflict came when early in the series Farfur squeaked in his childlike voice
"You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists. We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness, and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate Iraq, God willing, and liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by the murderers."
There is no word yet as to what entertainment will replace Farfur.