Media describe Gaza with the words "siege" and "poverty" but a research group reveals that Hamas has a stranglehold on 'charities' that teach children to kill Jews. Arab civilian institutions, known in Arabic as "da'wah," which receive funds through charities and directly from Hamas, support terrorists and teach children to kill Jews as part of the "liberation" of Palestine, their term for Israel.
"Da'wah deals with preaching and incitement to terrorism and hatred for Israel and the Jews by running an independent educational system and mosques to brainwash Palestinians with its radical Islamic ideology," according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (IITIC).
In Judea and Samaria, the Da'wah serves as Hamas's front line against the ruling Fatah government, which Hamas charges is cooperating with the IDF in attempt to wipe out Hamas-supported groups.
Charity groups, often with peaceful sounding names like Union of Good, help fund the Da'wah in Gaza. Da'wah schools, encouraged by the Hamas administration, begin indoctrination in kindergartens and operate summer camps, more than 100 of which are operated by the Union of Good.
A child at a Hamas summer camp, when asked what he wants to be when he grows up, replied. "I want to be a military man, a holy warrior, to liberate this land, because it is ours and does not belong to anyone else."
Expensive "cultural and educational" activities belie the alleged lack of funds, IITIC reported.
"They distributed food packages, clothing and presents, gave money to the needy and financed mass fast-breaking feasts in the mosques," researchers stated. "Some of the activity was sponsored, as expected, by donations from abroad, and some, in our assessment, by the Hamas administration, which used cash smuggled into the Gaza Strip through the tunnel network under the Gaza-Egypt border."
The extent of the aid was shown last month by a report from the Al-Mujamma' al-Islami charitable society of assistance it provided during Ramadan, IITIC stated. "The society distributed 1,000 baskets of food, 300 sacks of flour, 400 meals and 5,000 pitas. It provided hundreds of mass fast-breaking meals, handed out coupons worth 100-200 shekels to 1,700 Gaza residents and gave out cash: 150 families received $150, 500 families received between 100-200 shekels, 600 families received 100 shekels for clothing and 2,000 orphans received a sum total of half a million dollars."
Da'wah "charity" funds also helped Hamas break the recent Fatah-sponsored strike of medical workers. Da'wah societies offered care in its own highly profession medical clinics.