Palestinian child soldiers refers to the training, indoctrination, education of children for terror; using them in the war against Israel.
It began in the late 1960s as baby tigers, by Ahmad Shukairy]], Arafat and George Habash but then expabded into Lion cubs Ashbal.
In recent years, Arafat's Legacy goes on, under, more under Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the likes.
Journalust notes: [1] "The Palestinians' Child Soldiers are their most dangerous threat."
Explaining:Hanging above Israel is a strategic threat that, at the end of the day, is greater than Hamas terror, burning kites, tunnels and rockets, greater even than Iran and Hezbollah. It is the threat of “child soldiers,” a tool the Palestinians have been using successfully since the 1970s to promote anti-Israel propaganda and earn the favor of the West. It is a wicked and cynical modus operandi that works perfectly.
We’re not talking about “humani shields,” “incitement” or any other clumsy euphemism of the government’s tired and ineffectual hasbara machine. We are talking about the cruel use of children in a prolonged, cynical, no-holds-barred campaign of psychological warfare. Through it, the Palestinians cause us to doubt the justice of our path, to fight terror with our hands tied, to explain and to apologize to the world and to turn our allies into our adversaries.
In 2020, a coalition of non-governmental organizations began urging the public to help stop the use of Palestinian children as soldiers and war resources by their leaders and terror groups in the region. Calked: Coalition to Save Palestinian Child Soldiers.[2] Stating: An estimated 10,000 children are trained in Gazan terrorist camps each year, and that at least 160 have died digging terror tunnels into Israel.
Adding:While the plight of child soldiers in Africa in particular has received global attention, their Arab counterparts in the Palestinian territories have often been ignored by the international community, as the human cost of using children to carry out terror attacks or as human shields has become overlooked in the political battles raging over the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Yet the children who survive their ordeal often carry the scars of trauma, preventing them not only from having a normal childhood, but also from being able to live fulfilling lives as adults...
For decades, the letter states, Palestinian children "have fulfilled the role of combatants, human shields, rioters, laborers, support staff, and even as suicide bombers – and as a result, their childhoods have been shortened by death, severe injury, or imprisonment."
The global community's unwillingness to address the issue, "has emboldened organizations such as Hamas, Fatah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and PFLP in their exploitation of children as war resources," the letter continues.
A 2016 report found that 240 US-government approved textbooks, used in hundreds of UNRWA-sponsored schools, were teaching Arab children between the first and ninth grades to kill Israelis and martyr themselves. Other reports have reached similar conclusions. Yet despite this, it was not until August 2019 that the UN finally called on Palestinian leaders to act against "racist speech and hate crimes," including incitement to violence against Israelis and Jews.
"These organizations expose them to inciteful and violent children’s shows, and flood social media with calls for jihad and terrorism," the letter reads. "When the children are older, they’re sent out to partake in violent riots and to act as human shields as thousands of others have before them."
It notes that an estimated 10,000 children are trained in Gazan terrorist camps each year, and that at least 160 have died digging terror tunnels into Israel.
It conducts camps for violent jihadism for kids . In 2021, after Guardian of walls, it called it the Saif Al-Quds ("Sword of Jerusalem").[3][4][5]
Extetnal links
The Forgotten Palestinian Child Soldiers - Israel Science and Technology Directory]
References
- ↑ Amiram Levin, "The Palestinians' Child Soldiers Are Their Most Dangerous Threat." Haaretz, Jun. 24, 2018
- ↑ NGOs call for public support in ending use of Palestinian child soldiers Donna Rachel Edmunds, JPost, Feb 12, 2020
- ↑ Poll: Majority of Palestinians support Hamas, not Palestinian Authority, JNS, June 16, 2021. Hamas fighters register Palestinian children for “Saif Al-Quds” camps in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2021.
- ↑ The next generation of terrorists: This is how Hamas prepares children for terrorism. Achikam Himmelfarb, Ch 20,
7th of Tammuz 5781 (17/06/2021).
Those of us who have sweet memories flooding as one recalls the summer camps one attended as a child will be surprised to hear that registration for a different kind of summer camp has begun in Gaza. Camps where instead of getting a tropical and a bun, the kids get military training.
These terrorist camps show the scale of Hamas' values: "What needs to be emphasized here is that education is the means and activity that a society invests to pass on its values to the next generation. Their highest value is not life, not development, not health and not high-tech but the struggle. Jihad against Israel Through the educational jihad they are now training the manpower for the next war jihad. - ↑ This Ongoing War (@ThisOngoingWar) Tweeted: Excitement in Gaza today as #Hamas opens registration for its annual summer #ChildWeaponization program for aspiring child jihadists. Ever marketing savvy, they call this year's the Saif Al-Quds ("Sword of Jerusalem") Camp in honor of last month's victorious battle. https://t.co/w3qmpNJAIS June 14, 2021