(IsraelNN.com) The Hamas placed pictures of children in combat roles and combat dress on its web site for one week. The pictures were taken at a “Palestinian Children’s Festival” in Yemen.

The Yeminite press reported on the festival. Yemen News said, “A Hamas representative [in Yemen] Jamal Issa … stated that the Palestinian children fight alongside the adults in the resistance."

The pictures, reproduced below, can also be seen on the website of Palestinian Media Watch, or on a website reporting on news and events in the Palestinian Authority.

The third picture shows a girl wearing a sash with the name Reem Riyashi on it. Reem Riyashi was a woman suicide terrorist who murdered four Israelis.

Despite Yemenite complicity with the Hamas in using children to promote terror and violence, US News and World Report reported last week that Yemen "has become one of America's most unexpected allies in counter terrorism." [March 13, 2006 page 38].