This is what summer camp is like in Gaza, where children as young as 6 learn military discipline and how to kidnap Israel soldiers.
Youths aged between six and 16 were seen taking part in a range of exercises, including one that simulated the capture of an Israeli soldier.
Elsewhere in the mock warzone in the town of Rafah, budding fighters crawled under barbed wire, jumped through fire and ducked for cover behind sandbags in the desert terrain.
Explosions and burning tyres helped to simulate realistic battle conditions, as boys were coached to flee from the enemy and shoot at targets. Bullets were fired overhead by their masked supervisors.
The boys were also pictured marching and standing to attention as orders were barked at them to instil military discipline.
Many more pictures here. Maybe someone should send them to Ban Ki-Moon. The 'Palestinians' are a totally sick society. At my kids' camps, what they really care about is how often they get to go swimming.
UN slams use of child soldiers, forgets 'Palestinian' 'human shields' and child combatants
Commendably (for a change), the United Nations has slammed the use of child soldiers in Syria and in several other countries. Regrettably, they left out the use of children as 'human shields' (above) and combatants (below) by the 'Palestinians' and other terror organizations.
The report issued after Ban's special envoy for children and armed
conflict, Leila Zerrougui, visited Syria in December said thousands of
children have been killed in the violence, "while thousands more have
seen family members killed or injured."
The report also said children are recruited, killed, maimed or raped
by government forces and armed groups in Afghanistan, Chad, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Yemen, as
well as by armed groups in Mali, Colombia, the Philippines, Myanmar,
Iraq and the Central African Republic.
The United Nations considers anyone aged under 18 to be a child.
Ban
said that in Syria, torture and ill-treatment of children accused of
associating with opposition forces was a worrying trend.
"There
were a number of accounts of sexual violence against boys to obtain
information or a confession by the state forces, largely but not
exclusively by members of the state intelligence services and the Syrian
armed forces," the report said.
"Child detainees, largely boys
and as young as 14 years old, suffered similar or identical methods of
tortures as adults, including electric shock, beatings, stress positions
and threats and acts of sexual torture," it said.
Armed
opposition groups, including the Free Syrian Army, were also accused of
using children, generally aged 15 to 17 years old, both in combat and in
support roles, such as ferrying food and water and loading cartridges,
the report said.
"From accounts received, child association with
the Free Syrian Army is often linked to an older relative facilitating
recruitment or in instances in which the child has lost all members of
his or her family," it said.
But the United Nations 'forgot' (more likely didn't want to mention) the use of children as 'human shields' by 'Palestinian' terror organizations like Fatah and Hamas.
The picture at the bottom is of 'Palestinian' kids coming right up to the border fence with Israel on November 23, 2012.
And then there's this use of a child.
Let's go to the videotape.
But silly me. In the UN's book, it's okay for the 'Palestinians' to use children in combat and as 'human shields.' After all, the 'Palestinians' are a 'liberation movement.'
Video: Children being trained for global jihad at the West's expense
This video - which speaks for itself - was posted by Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna. It shows children training for jihad at a camp in Sudan, and is being used to raise money to train more children.
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