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| Hamas opens military camp for 25,000 Gazans aged 15 and up | |
| 2015-07-26 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades readies recruits in summer program for 'spiritual, intellectual and physical' struggle for 'liberation' The military wing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, opened a Gazoo summer camp on Saturday, providing combat training for 25,000 Paleostinians as young as 15. Hamas, an Islamic krazed killer group that is the de facto power in Gazoo, is currently engaged in indirect contacts with Israel to try to reach a long-term truce, but a year after last summer's devastating 50-day war the terrorist movement has kept up the fighting talk. "The goal of these military training camps is to train the vanguard for liberation -- spiritually, intellectually and physically -- to be ready and able to play its role in liberation," said a statement by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing. It said that participants, aged 15-60, would spend two weeks being "trained in military techniques and in firing live ammunition" as well as "first aid and rescue techniques." As with all the brigades' activities the camps will be conducted out of public and media sight. Hamas has long run summer camps devoted to sport and study of the Koran in Gazoo but over the winter the al-Qassam brigades launched a new kind of camp, giving military training to 15 to 20-year-olds. Human rights activists condemned it as a forced militarization of Gazook society and a violation of children's rights. Brushing off the criticism, the brigades are repeating the exercise with the summer camp, while raising the upper age limit to 60. Avowedly committed to the destruction of Israel, Hamas has fought three rounds of conflict against Israel since it took charge, most recently a 50-day war last summer. It has bragged since that it is again digging tunnels to the Israeli border and developing and manufacturing new rockets for use against Israel.
The participants of the bad boy camp were also trained in firing sniper rifles, using the portraits of Israeli leaders for targets. The Paleostinian youth simulated attacks on Israeli destinations through model terror tunnels, meant to recreate the experience of infiltrating Israeli territory. Recently Hamas claimed that demand for a place in the camp had exceeded the planned quota and they were forced to make changes to accept all the applicants. The group's leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... attended a graduation ceremony for the thousands of future Hamas holy warriors earlier this year. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Target rich environment. Not advocation' just sayin'. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-07-26 15:13 |
| #3 Kinda like scout camp except with short term job prospects. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2015-07-26 13:45 |
| #2 "Week three...more of the flaming hoops. Booooring" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-07-26 09:50 |
| #1 Waiting for ZF or Someone like Him. Hello mutter, Hello cannon fodder, Ima star in a movie, It's about a Camp in Gaza The Jooooos call it Meatballz Lotsa. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-26 07:36 |