Posted on 07/29/2009 2:24:41 AM PDT by biomedman
The IDF this week revealed a recruitment video produced by a Hamas terror "academy" in Gaza. The training included techniques for the abduction of IDF soldiers, a wide range of other terrorist activities, and the teachings of an al-Qaeda ideologue. As publicized by the government-sponsored Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the hour-long video was discovered during Israel's counterterrorism operation in Gaza, Cast Lead, in 2008. Hamas produced and distributed the captured video in 2007 as a recruiting tool for a training academy it established the previous year, in an effort to improve its The battle they are to wage is not only for the sake of Palestinians, but for Allah and the supremacy of Islam. military capabilities.
According to the Hamas recruitment video and related material, terror trainees are instructed in such skills as preparing explosives, detonating charges, self-defense, wireless communications, first aid, VIP protection, deception and camouflage, as well as in training for specific missions. Among the latter were penetrating IDF positions and abducting Israeli soldiers.
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July 27, 2009
Summer camp in Gaza: Koran studies and reenactment of the kidnapping of Israeli soldier
But they sincerely want peace!
And doesn’t the distribution of the Koran lead anyone to note that the rest of the camp activities are at variance with the teachings of the Book of Peace?
“Gaza campers stage ‘Schalit abduction,’” by Yaakov Katz for the Jerusalem Post, Jul 27 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
Children in Hamas summer camps reenacted the abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit in the presence of top Hamas officials, according to pictures obtained by The Jerusalem Post.
According to Israeli defense officials, more than 120,000 Palestinian children are spending the summer in Hamas-run camps. In addition to religious studies, the children undergo semi-military training with toy guns.
At a recent summer camp graduation ceremony, the children put on a show reenacting the June 2006 abduction of Schalit. Present was Osama Mazini, a senior Hamas political leader, who is in charge of the Schalit negotiations with Israel on behalf of the terrorist group.
In one picture, obtained by the Post, Mazini is seen standing next to Ahmad Bahar, the acting speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, distributing Korans to camp counselors.
“This sends a message,” one Israeli defense official said, regarding Mazini’s participation at the ceremony. “This is Hamas’s way of showing Palestinian children that kidnapping soldiers is the correct way of life.”...
Posted by Robert at July 27, 2009 7:11 AM
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