Dear Representative:
Like residents of many countries in the Northern Hemisphere, Americans are preparing their summer plans: vacations, getaways, and camps for the kids.
People in Gaza Strip are no different, except the camps they send their kids to are special terror camps run by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization. As an al-Qassam Brigade spokesman put it in his opening remarks of the summer camp, delivered in English: “The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade announced the launch of the liberation camps for the youth in Gaza Strip… This program is also intended to protect the young generation from falling into traps laid by the Israeli occupation, and help them acquire a number of skills that will make them competent and conscious through a range of religious, security, and (unclear word) programs, including physical training, self-defense skills, first aid program, and crisis management skills.” The spokesman also underscored, more than once, that one of the missions of this camp is to strengthen the kids’ willingness to make sacrifices when needed.
Luckily, there is abundant footage online of their “physical training, self-defense skills and first-aid program” and demonstrations of what constitutes “making sacrifices when needed.” In this video clip, you will see some of the 25,000 kids who attend the camp, some younger than 13, training to operate assault rifles, assault buildings and learning military formations and the combat doctrine of Hamas. It is also reported that in the camp, the children learn to traipse down buildings and to launch shoulder-fired missiles.
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