Hamas Uses Children as Human Shields, and Israel Gets Blamed
By Candace Hall, 2019–2020 CAMERA on Campus Fellow
On February 19, 2019, Fathi Hammad, a member of the Hamas Political Bureau, made a public statement saying that “we will teach our kids in the kindergartens, the elementary schools, and the middle schools how to move forward and liberate their land, with the help of Allah alone.”
This declaration was followed by a claim that “once you [children] complete the advanced course of the ‘March of Return,’ you should join the Al-Quds and Al-Qassam Brigades, the mujahideen and the freemen, wherever they may be.”
Although Hamas has not made it a secret that they train children to fulfill military roles, kill Jews, and then actively put them in harm’s way, their practices have only garnered intermittent international condemnation.
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