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Palestinian youths brandishing fake rifles parade during a military-style summer camp organized annually by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group during the school holiday, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
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‘Ensuring jihad will continue’: Gaza summer camp teaches youth to fight, hate Israel
By ToI Staff
Young Palestinians parade and brandish fake rifles as they are instructed on combat against the ‘Zionist enemy’ at Palestinian Islamic Jihad camp
Palestinian youths brandishing fake rifles parade during a military-style summer camp organized annually by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group during the school holiday, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
June 26, 2023, 4:08 am
‘Ensuring jihad will continue’: Gaza summer camp teaches youth to fight, hate Israel
Young Palestinians parade and brandish fake rifles as they are instructed on combat against the ‘Zionist enemy’ at Palestinian Islamic Jihad camp
By ToI Staff
Gaza children train in weapons-use in the Strip, summer 2021 (Hamas)
July 3, 2021, 12:00 pm
At annual summer camps, Hamas trains kids to fire guns, kidnap soldiers
Children at ‘Pioneers of Liberation’ camp drill to become combatants against Israel, simulate shooting attacks in Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Children take part in a reenactment of the Temple Mount crisis during a Hamas summer camp in the Gaza Strip in July 2017. (Screen capture: MEMRI)
August 2, 2017, 10:12 am
At Hamas summer camp, kids ‘liberate’ Temple Mount, ‘kill’ Israeli troops
In a play, children pretend to shoot ‘Zionist pigs’ dead for their ‘defilement’ of the holy compound in Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Palestinian diggers dump sand into a truck at the site of Al-Isra 2 housing project in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, July 20, 2016 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
July 30, 2016, 12:35 pm
In financial plight, Hamas hands out former settlement lands
The cash-strapped group is hoping giveaway of Gaza plots will help appease civil servants owed millions of dollars in salaries
By Fares Akram
Gaza youth training at a Hamas summer camp (Middle East Media Research Institute)
July 23, 2016, 10:07 pm
Gaza summer camps train teens for jihad
Hamas promotional video shows boys being taught to ‘take revenge upon the tyrannical Zionist occupation’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a Palestinian youth crawling under a barbed wire obstacle during a graduation ceremony for a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)
February 9, 2015, 8:28 am
In Gaza, disaffected youth see future as Hamas fighters
Some 17,000 child soldiers graduate course by terror group; some human rights activists defend camps, but decry use of teens
By Mai Yaghi
A child practices disassembling an AK-47 during the Hamas-run 'pioneers of liberation' camps in Gaza (photo credit: Hamas interior ministry website)
January 15, 2014, 2:33 pm
13,000 teens complete Hamas training camps to emulate ‘suicide martyrs’
Numbers more than double in second year of Gaza’s ‘Pioneers of Liberation’ program; females also trained
By Elhanan Miller
A still from the film "Flying Paper." (photo credit: courtesy image/copyright Amber Fares)
December 1, 2013, 9:53 am
Where kites, not katyushas, fill the sky
In the documentary ‘Flying Paper,’ plucky kids trying to break a world record show the humanity inside Gaza; it’s a short, ‘soft,’ film, and it’s proving a hard sell
By Debra Kamin
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
November 11, 2012, 9:31 pm
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Operation ‘Take Back the Media’
It’s raining missiles and the silence is deafening
Hamas campers in Gaza protest in solidarity with Hamas prisoners Mahmoud Al-Sarsak and Akram al-Rekhawi, Rafah, June 11 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
July 13, 2012, 11:48 am
With UNRWA cutting back, Hamas dominates Gaza summer camp scene
Activities include walking on knives, cleaning beaches and experiencing life as a security prisoner in an Israeli jail
By Elhanan Miller
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