Children as young as 10 are being recruited to fight for the Palestinian cause, Skynews reports. Reporting from a young people's camp in Gaza, Sky's Middle East Correspondent Emma Hurd explained that the "only lesson taught [there] is how to kill Israelis. "
The camp, at an undisclosed location, was set up to drill children in the ways of war, Hurd reported, and, "The recruits, some of whom are dwarfed by their AK-47 assault rifles, are taught how to carry out ambushes," as well as pass through an obstacle course, "crawling under barbed wire and leaping through hoops of fire while their instructors fire live bullets overhead."
Hurd said she witnessed one training session in which a militant, dressed as a Jewish settler complete with yarmulke skull cap, was ambushed in his car. Gunmen pulled the "settler" from his vehicle, and Hurd was told if this had been real he would have been killed. One 10-year-old recruit told her he wanted to shoot down Israeli aircraft and blow up tanks.
The camp is run by a group called the Popular Resistance Committee, Hurd reports, representatives of which said that the next generation of Palestinians needed to know how to fight the Israeli "occupation."
The camp, at an undisclosed location, was set up to drill children in the ways of war, Hurd reported, and, "The recruits, some of whom are dwarfed by their AK-47 assault rifles, are taught how to carry out ambushes," as well as pass through an obstacle course, "crawling under barbed wire and leaping through hoops of fire while their instructors fire live bullets overhead."
Hurd said she witnessed one training session in which a militant, dressed as a Jewish settler complete with yarmulke skull cap, was ambushed in his car. Gunmen pulled the "settler" from his vehicle, and Hurd was told if this had been real he would have been killed. One 10-year-old recruit told her he wanted to shoot down Israeli aircraft and blow up tanks.
The camp is run by a group called the Popular Resistance Committee, Hurd reports, representatives of which said that the next generation of Palestinians needed to know how to fight the Israeli "occupation."