Story Highlights • NEW: It's unclear if Al-Aqsa TV will make any requested changes to kids show
• Official first reported show canceled; TV rep says official "misunderstood"
• "Farfour," a Mickey Mouse look-alike, tells children to drink milk, take up arms
• Walt Disney's daughter told newspaper the show represents "pure evil"
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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A Hamas-produced children's television show featuring a Mickey Mouse-like character urging children to take up arms will air as scheduled on Friday, Al-Aqsa Television said Thursday.
It is not clear if the station will grant a Palestinian official's request for changes.
Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti initially said the show had been shelved and that Al-Aqsa TV had agreed to do a "full revision."
"We communicated with the station as soon as this was brought to our attention, and the station has informed us that they will stop it immediately," Barghouti initially said. (Watch the mouse dance as a child sings about an AK-47 )
Al-Aqsa TV said later, however, that the show will be broadcast at 4 p.m. (9 a.m. ET) Friday.
According to the Web site of the Middle East Times, a Cyprus-based Egyptian newspaper, an Al-Aqsa TV representative said the station will continue to air the show and that "Barghouti misunderstood the issue." The source requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, the paper reported.
Barghouti said Thursday he would not object to the broadcast if Al-Aqsa TV adhered to his requests that the show not politicize children and that it "stop the political approach to children."
Barghouti, who is politically independent from the fractious Hamas and Fatah parties, said he personally requested the changes after an episode made global headlines.
Barghouti said Al-Aqsa TV was cooperating. But it is unclear what, if any, revisions will be made.
The station's deputy manager, Hazem Shaarawi, insisted the show is "about Palestinian kids."
"They express their feeling regarding what they witness -- if it's occupation it's about that, and about the prisoners and how to lead the world," Shaarawi said.
Barghouti said the Palestinian Authority licensed the Hamas-owned station last week and has been working with station managers to temper some of the programming.
'Tomorrow's Pioneers'
The show, "Tomorrow's Pioneers," aired in Gaza on the Al-Aqsa TV station, which is owned by Hamas, an Islamic militant group that controls the Palestinian government and has called for the destruction of Israel.
The show features a person in a giant black-and-white costume that looks like Walt Disney's cartoon character Mickey Mouse. In the episode, Farfour dances with an imaginary gun in his gloved hands and encourages kids to drink milk, study hard -- and engage in violent acts of "resistance" against their Israeli neighbors and America.
The episode, concerns of which were first raised by Palestinian Media Watch and Middle East Media Research Institute, showed Farfour cheering for Islamic supremacy, saying, "We will win, Bush! We will win, Condoleezza [Rice]!"
Palestinian Media Watch spokesman Itamar Marcus called the program dangerous.
"The danger is its mixing of the poison with the [milk], and the child doesn't even realize that he's being poisoned," Marcus said.
Although Barghouti called the show's content "very unfortunate," he also said the show is indicative of Palestinian struggles against Israeli occupation.
"Fishermen are shot at when they try to fish. The passages are closed. People cannot move freely from in or out of Gaza," he said. "It's a situation of imprisonment for years. And that oppression, this apartheid system, of course drives people crazy and creates certain reactions as the one you have seen."
Both Al-Aqsa TV and Hamas refused to comment.
Walt Disney's sole surviving daughter, Diane Disney Miller, on Tuesday told the New York Daily News the show "is just going against the grain of humanity."
"What we're dealing with here is pure evil and you can't ignore that," Miller was quoted as saying on the Daily News Web site.
Mickey Mouse-like character, gestures holding a firearm while an 11-year-old caller to the children's program ''Tomorrow's pioneers'' sings a Hamas anthem with the lyrics: "Rafah sings 'oh oh', its answer is an AK-47." 
The children's show 'Tomorrow's pioneers' on Al-Aqsa TV, which is controlled by Hamas, is hosted by a character resembling Mickey Mouse, who tells young viewers to drink milk, study hard and fight for Islamic world leadership and commit violence against Israel and the United States.

The images date from April but have made the press earlier this week. Meanwhile the show was reported to have been put on hold, pending a "full revision", according to the Palestinian Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti. But a representative from Al Aqsa TV called this a mistake, so the show might still be aired on Friday.

At the beginning of the video ''Farfur'' (''Butterfly''), an actor in a mouse suit, calls for Islamic world leadership, starting in Palestine. He pleads for the restoration of the glory of Palestine, the liberation of Jerusalem, Iraq, and "the Muslim countries, invaded by murderers." "We will resist and protect against the Zionist occupation," co-host ''Saraa'' predicts. Saraa is only a young girl. A report by Fox News claims that children have been used before for Palestinian propaganda.

The children's program is filmed in a studio with fuzzy dice and colourful letters and numbers on the wall. In this setting the shows hosts proclaim things like: "We will win, Bush. We will win, Sharon. Ah, Sharon is dead..."

Another fragment shows how an 11-year-old girl calls the show and sings "Rafah sings 'oh oh', its answer is an AK47," which is a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The fake Mickey Mouse gestures holding a firearm.

Meanwhile the footage has been watched over 100,000 times on YouTube. The images were edited by the Israeli organisation Palestinian Media Watch, which studies and brings to attention the role of the Palestinian authority on the media and schoolbooks. The Middle East Media Research Institute was also involved in bringing the show under the attention.

Walt Disney's only living daughter, Diane Disney Miller, has already reacted to the news. She was shocked by the show, and called it "pure evil".

According to the Palestinian Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti (who is independent from both Hamas and Fatah), the show is an illustration of the struggle of the Palestinian people against the Israeli occupation. "It's a situation of imprisonment for years. And that oppression, this apartheid system, of course drives people crazy and creates certain reactions as the one you have seen," Barghouti explained. He also called the shows content "very unfortunate," and a "mistaken approach" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.