Hamas military summer youth camps draw criticism

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DPA

Military summer camps run by the militant Palestinian organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad for children and young people in the Gaza Strip are drawing criticism. “Hamas is training tens of thousands of Palestinian kids in these camps,” Israeli spokesman Ofir Gendelman wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “Using children as terrorists is a war crime and a crime against humanity.” In recent days, numerous pictures from the summer camps have been published on social media. They showed children and young people in martial outfits training with weapons. Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer the camps to children …

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