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‘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

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

Fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation units), backing the Iraqi forces, pose for a photograph with a flag of the Islamic State (IS) group in Tal Afar's Qalea central district during an operation to retake the city from the jihadists on August 27, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

September 29, 2020, 5:42 pm

Italy repatriates female Islamic fighter and her 4 children

Authorities say Alice Brignoli will face trial on terror-related charges, contributed to radicalizing her children to ’embrace global cause of jihadism’

By Colleen Barry

A screenshot from video of a sermon shared by Talal Magri, a high school teacher in Belgium. (Screen capture: Facebook)

December 6, 2019, 4:52 pm

Belgian teacher shares video calling for jihad against Jews

Talal Magri, who teaches at school near Brussels, denies sermon is anti-Semitic; watchdog head: Magri one of many ‘preachers spreading poison and turning students into time bombs’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sayyaf Sharif Daoud, an Arab Israeli who traveled to Syria to join IS, speaks with Al Arabiya. (video screenshot)

August 1, 2019, 1:08 pm

Israeli Islamic State fighter captured in Syria asks Netanyahu to bring him home

Speaking Hebrew, Sayyaf Sharif Daoud requests PM’s intervention, noting that Jerusalem works to secure release of IDF soldiers held in captivity

By ToI Staff

Illustrative: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in a still image from a web posting by the terrorist organization's media arm, as-Sahab, on July 27, 2011. (AP)

December 8, 2017, 1:37 pm

Al-Qaeda urges attacks on US, Israel after Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem

Terror group issues call for jihad, telling followers US is modern-day ‘pharaoh’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The French city of Toulouse's city hall. The mayor's office in the city referred the parents of a child to prosecutors for naming him 'Jihad' in August 2017. (CC BY-SA .30, Benh Lieu Song, Wikipedia)

October 23, 2017, 6:36 pm

Is ‘Jihad’ an acceptable name? French judge to rule

Case in Toulouse comes after similar incident in Nice in which parents named child after Jewish day school terrorist Mohammed Merah

By AFP

Hamza bin Laden in undated footage delivering a speech entitled "We Are All Osama," which was posted to a militant website. (YouTube screenshot)

September 14, 2017, 11:31 pm

Bin Laden’s son calls for jihad in Syria

Hamza bin Laden, on US terrorist blacklist since January, believed preparing to take over leadership of Al-Qaeda

By AFP

From the WebSeptember 4, 2017, 6:16 pm

UK synagogue hosts Muslim cleric who urged ‘jihad against the Jews’

Members of Catford and Bromley United Synagogue criticize leadership’s decision to invite Shakeel Begg to interfaith event, Jewish News reports

People gather to leave tributes on August 18, 2017 for the victims at the spot where a van ploughed into the crowd on August 17, 2017, killing 13 people and injuring over 100, on the Las Ramblas Boulevard in Barcelona, Spain. (AFP/Josep Lago)

August 18, 2017, 4:31 pm

Fourth person arrested as Spain reels from twin attacks

Arrest reportedly in Ripoll; sources say terror cell could be as large as 12, including some who traveled to Syria

By Agencies

Medical staff and policemen stand in a cordoned-off area after a van plowed into the crowd, injuring several people, in Barcelona on August 17, 2017. (AFP/Josep Lago)

August 18, 2017, 1:08 pm

Hezbollah says Barcelona attacker ‘tarnishing jihad’

Lebanese terror group decries IS killing of innocent people; meanwhile, Jerusalem links Spain to Israel, calls for concerted effort against terrorism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File: Police investigate an area where terror suspect Mohamed Abrini was arrested in Brussels on Friday April 8, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

December 16, 2016, 7:17 pm

Jihadists’ return from frontline a major threat, US experts warn

Western authorities estimate 25,000 to 30,000 fighters went to IS ‘caliphate’

By Michel Moutot

Illustrative: German police in Cologne. (AFP/PATRIK STOLLARZ)

November 15, 2016, 11:11 am

German police stage massive raids on Islamist group

Officers sweep nearly 200 sites in 10 states connected to banned group handing out radical translations of Quran and sending fighters to Syria and Iraq

By Agencies

Illustrative: An Islamic State terrorist waves the jihadist organization's flag (CC BY-SA Alatele fr, Flickr)

November 10, 2016, 6:48 pm

Islamist extremists revel in Trump triumph

IS supporters view president-elect’s anti-Muslim rhetoric as opportunity to ‘enlarge the field of jihad’

By Samer al-Atrush

Residents clean the area in the Freetown Christiania neighborhood of Copenhagen, on September 2, 2016, after two police officers were shot in a drugs raid. (Scanpix Denmark /Uffe Weng /AFP)

September 2, 2016, 10:46 pm

Islamic State says its ‘soldier’ shot cops in Danish drug bust

Mesa Hodzic, who injured 2 officers and civilian in Copenhagen raid, died Friday from gunshot wounds sustained during arrest

By AFP