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Israel-Palestine
Gaza Kids' Summer Camp
2004-07-13
Just saw this story on Fox News this AM as well.
Children as young as 10 are being recruited to fight for the Palestinian cause. Sky News has gained access to a young people's camp in Gaza, where the only lesson taught is how to kill Israelis. Sky's Middle East Correspondent Emma Hurd said the camp, at an undisclosed location, had been set up to drill children in the ways of war. The recruits, some of whom are dwarfed by their AK-47 assault rifles, are taught how to carry out ambushes. They are also made to do an obstacle course, crawling under barbed wire and leaping through hoops of fire while their instructors fire live bullets overhead. Hurd witnessed one training session in which a militant, dressed as a Jewish settler complete with yarmulke skull cap, was ambushed in his car.Gunmen pulled the "settler" from his vehicle and Hurd was told if this had been real he would have been killed.

She spoke to two 10-year-old recruits. One of them, Mustafa, said he wanted to shoot down Israeli aircraft and blow up tanks. The camp is run by a group called the Popular Resistance Committee, which said the next generation of Palestinians needed to know how to fight the Israeli "occupation". The boys even "graduate" at the end of their training, receiving a certificate from the camp commander.
Posted by:Howard UK

#8  Presents
Posted by: .com   2004-07-13 9:40:29 PM  

#7  I wonder if the Paleos will start putting bombs in baby cradles and leaving them on Israeli doorsteps . . . and if Kofi & Krew will condemn them for it.
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-07-13 9:36:32 PM  

#6  The UNWRA must be very proud of itself.
Posted by: mhw   2004-07-13 7:29:38 PM  

#5  Only one term clearly describes these dangerous, repulsive actions......... CULT!
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-07-13 6:54:33 PM  

#4  Clear, incontrovertible evidence that palis are being trained to kill Jews.

There is abundant, documented evidence that Israel is not the aggressor in this conflict. Obviously, then, it is not evidence the world needs to decide who is right and who is wrong. I can only conclude that world opinion, heavily against Israel, is swayed more by political, economic and historical biases than by facts.

Therefore, Israel needs to do whatever it sees as being in its best interests, because reason and diplomacy are irrelevant and pointless: keep an active nuclear program, build the wall, attack terrorist leaders wherever and whenever.

Thankfully, the US supports Israel.
Posted by: PlanetDan   2004-07-13 11:02:38 AM  

#3  Yesterday, one of our moderate American Muslim posters in explaining the point blank murder of a Jewish woman and 4 small chilren, claimed that Israeli children were a legitimate target because they will one day grow up to be soldiers. Here is an example of the incredible brainwashing of 10 year old Palestinean children, training to kill Jews. So I have of a question for you Muslim readers. Are Palestinean children training to kill Jews legitimate targets? Will you cheer on Israelis to round up these children and shoot them at point blank range?
Posted by: ed   2004-07-13 10:47:04 AM  

#2  Where's the outrage from the Left and the UN about "children soldiers"?
Posted by: Robert W.   2004-07-13 10:22:47 AM  

#1  Please swap around Fred... Ooops.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-07-13 5:27:30 AM  

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