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Hamas commanders are allegedly training school-aged children to defend Gaza as thousands of Israeli troops prepare to storm the border, it has emerged.
Terrorists are training children as young as 14 for battle, with some even younger apparently being trained in military drills and weapons skills, an Israeli emergency responder unit has claimed.
South First Responders (SFR) shared photos and videos of the alleged training on Telegram yesterday. The footage was reportedly captured on body-worn cameras that were taken from terrorists' corpses.
SFR said the footage is evidence of the 'cynical indoctrination of Palestinian children' in what they described as 'military-style training camps'.
The videos were filmed 'head-cam' cameras ahead of the Kfar Aza attack and reveal how evil Hamas commanders are training boy soldiers as the next generation of terrorists.
The footage shows the fighters preparing for their twisted mission in homes inside Gaza, before setting off at dawn in a convoy of motorbikes and pick-up trucks.
Baby-faced youngsters, some as young as ten, are seen brandishing rifles.
The gruesome videos were found on dead terrorists, who were armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades
The percentage of individuals aged (0-14) years constituted 38% of the total population in mid-2022; of whom 36% in the West Bank and 41% in Gaza Strip. The percentage of elderly population aged (65 years and above) reached 3% of the total population; of whom 4% in the West Bank and 3% in Gaza Strip in mid-2022.
Conflict-related deaths 2011-2021:
3,572 Palestinians
806 Palestinian children
198 Israelis
14 Israeli children.
originally posted by: gsbltd
It's along-established fact that children as young as 13 are routinely trained by the Israeli military.
So: instead of pointing fingers at who is indoctrinating children let's keep this discussion genuine, shall we?
So: instead of pointing fingers at who is indoctrinating children let's keep this discussion genuine, shall we?
originally posted by: nugget1
So: instead of pointing fingers at who is indoctrinating children let's keep this discussion genuine, shall we?
I'm pretty sure you're not the one who created this thread, so how about we leave the decision as to what can and can't be discussed up to the original author?
Just a suggestion.....
originally posted by: gsbltd
a reply to: face23785 Congratulations on ignoring the demographic age stats of Gaza's populace:
0-14 years: 42.53%
15-24 years: 21.67%
25-54 years: 29.47%
55-64 years: 3.66%
65+: 2.68%
In contrast, Israel's stats differ greatly:
0-14 years: 28.07%
15-64 years: 59.89%
I've already clearly stated that to use children in any armed conflict is an atrocity. But, again make no mistake: if the IDF's forces were to suddenly shrink to nothing, Tel Aviv wouldn't hesitate to order that 28.07% into battle.
So exactly where is the moral superiority you insist exists? Short answer: there is none!
But to address your incredulity: the reason why Palestine uses so many children in war is because that's about all they have. And throughout history when it comes down to the survival of the state or its people, the former is always the only alternative since a populace can presumably regrow. But once lost, sovereignty is almost never regained.
originally posted by: gsbltd
a reply to: FlyersFan Nice try, but once again you only spoke half-truths.
From the youngest age, Israeli children are taught to despise Gentiles -and all they represent- just as they are taught that all Muslims are likewise evil.
I was raised to curse Israel and pray for the destruction of Jews, writes AYAAN HIRSI ALI... That's why I know all too well Hamas is another ISIS - whatever useful idiots in the West say.
The worst insult in the Somali community was to be called a 'Jew', not that any of us actually knew one. To be called a 'Jew' was so abhorrent, some felt justified in killing anyone who so dishonoured them with this 'slur'.
I vividly remember sitting with my female fellows in mosques, cursing Israel and praying to Allah to destroy the Jews. We were certainly not interested in a peaceful 'two-state solution': we were taught to want to see Israel wiped off the map.
When I was 16, my school's teacher of religion was Sister Aziza. She read to us the Koran's lurid descriptions of the everlasting fire that burns flesh and dissolves skin — the place reserved for Jews.
Sister Aziza described Jews as physically monstrous, with horns coming from their heads, out of which flew devils that would corrupt the world. Jews controlled everything, she told us, and it was the duty of Muslims to destroy them.
I abandoned my religion, but I have never lost my clear-sighted understanding, forged in my childhood, of Islamism's pathological hatred of Jews, as well as Muslims considered as heretics and non-Muslims in general.
The former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi — a one-time leader of the Muslim Brotherhood — declared that Muslims should 'nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred' of Jews. His organisation has done just that — and the despicable sentiment is the underlying context to Hamas's most recent attacks.
The truth, however, is that Hamas is no more a friend of the Palestinians than it is a friend of Israel.
Those who see the conflict as a simple territorial dispute between a colonial state and a dispossessed minority fail to recognise Hamas for what it really is: a gang of genocidal Islamist thugs backed by a theocratic, anti-Semitic regime in Iran.
originally posted by: hangedman13
originally posted by: gsbltd
a reply to: face23785 Congratulations on ignoring the demographic age stats of Gaza's populace:
0-14 years: 42.53%
15-24 years: 21.67%
25-54 years: 29.47%
55-64 years: 3.66%
65+: 2.68%
In contrast, Israel's stats differ greatly:
0-14 years: 28.07%
15-64 years: 59.89%
I've already clearly stated that to use children in any armed conflict is an atrocity. But, again make no mistake: if the IDF's forces were to suddenly shrink to nothing, Tel Aviv wouldn't hesitate to order that 28.07% into battle.
So exactly where is the moral superiority you insist exists? Short answer: there is none!
But to address your incredulity: the reason why Palestine uses so many children in war is because that's about all they have. And throughout history when it comes down to the survival of the state or its people, the former is always the only alternative since a populace can presumably regrow. But once lost, sovereignty is almost never regained.
And it has nothing to do with the Palestinians weeding out so many of their own people over the decades. Terrorist attack + retribution for those same attacks = a loss of adult males. A war of attrition they willingly undertake with obvious consequences.
Now I'm calling out some of your nonsense. Why would the IDF need to honeypot a population with mandatory military service? That statement was so divorced from reality. My second point, Switzerland has mandatory military service and what was the last war they were involved in again? Those warmongering Swiss!
There is a huge difference between mandatory military service and indoctrination by a nation with NO STANDING ARMY. And let's not forget the old boogeyman they teach their children about Jews. They eat babies and other such nonsense. Hamas ran Gaza and all they care for is wiping out Israel, not taking care of their people. Their actions have proved that again and again. This time they pushed it too far and are dealing with the results.