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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:57 AM Jan 2015

15,000 young Gazans complete Hamas terror training camps

Thousands of recruits as young as 15 learned how to kidnap soldiers, use weapons, and infiltrate into Israel though tunnels at a Hamas paramilitary training camp in Gaza.

On Thursday, some 15,000 Gazan teenagers and young men graduated from the week-long training camps, called the “Pioneers of Liberation.”

The 15-21-year-olds underwent military training for the armed wing of Hamas, Izaddin al-Qassam, six months after Hamas and other Gaza terror groups fought a 50-day war against Israel.

Drills included weapons training and exercises simulating kidnapping IDF soldiers and infiltration into Israel through tunnels. Portraits of Israeli leaders were used in target practice for sniper training.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/15000-young-gazans-complete-hamas-terror-training-camps/

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The anti-Israel contingent supports this war crime (child militants) shira Jan 2015 #1
 

shira

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1. The anti-Israel contingent supports this war crime (child militants)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 12:30 PM
Jan 2015

Although they'll argue 15 year olds are not children when fighting the occupation.

They're only children if they get killed in action.

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