Posted on 02/17/2026 11:27:20 PM PST by Freeleesy
Aizenberg @Aizenberg55:
Hamas uses child soldiers. NGOs don’t talk about it. The UN doesn’t report it. Human rights "experts" don't care. But the evidence is public — names, ages, photos, and admissions. 1,000s killed in combat. The Child Soldiers of Gaza ⬇️
Feb 17, 2026
The long-standing use of child soldiers by Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups is absent from mainstream discourse. A search for news coverage on child soldiers in Gaza since 10/7 yields no results from major media outlets. While the deaths of thousands of children in the Gaza war are tragic and deserve acknowledgment, many of those recorded as “child civilians,” particularly teenage males, were active participants in the fighting. Recognizing this reality fundamentally changes what is meant by “civilian casualties” in Gaza and exposes a critical dimension of the war that has been entirely ignored.
The widespread use of child soldiers by Palestinian militant groups over the past decade is well documented. In June 2015, a UN report on children and armed conflict verified multiple cases of child recruitment and use in combat by Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas. That same year, a Washington Post article titled “Here’s What a Hamas Training Camp for Teens Looks Like” provided a detailed account of military-style training camps for children as young as 12. These camps teach combat skills using live fire, RPGs, IEDs. This is not general physical conditioning or preparatory training for future service, but direct instruction for participation in combat. A 2017 Reuters report similarly documented Hamas-run military “summer camps” for minors. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also operated youth training programs, publishing recruitment posters explicitly targeting boys aged 14 to 17. In 2014, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh addressed a graduation ceremony for child recruits, praising what he called a “jihadi education” and celebrating the next “generation of tunnels” and “martyrdom operations.”
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“Infant”- ry
Bout says it all throught out history.
For thoe who glorify abortion and even infanticide, the death of children is of no consequence until survivors are old enough to vote.
As Our Father in Heaven’s Angels weep … rinos, democrats, the lamestream media, the devil and the demons applaud.
Since that day the so called “Peace Process” and been all process and little peace.
The PLO immediately embarked on indoctrinating hate of the West, the Jews and Isreal for children as young as kindergarten in Jihad, terrorism and martyrdom operations. Once old enough to began live fire military training , they start training of children into para military and terrorist operations
Yasser Arafat groupies Bill and Hillary Clinton stood by and did nothing.
Gaza has undergone three decades of radicalization and indoctrination of hate as official government policy.
Ultimately, the PLO was not brutal and radical enough so they got kicked to the curb by Iranian sponsored Hamas and Islamic Jihad forces. Gaza is an irredeemable terrorist state
There was a documentary more than 40 years ago about the Moslem boys aged from 9 years old being trained to kill the infidels...
I think the country was Syria and the boys all marched and chanted about killing Jews and Christians...
They all carried AK47s and demonstrated they knew how to use the weapons...
I think the first one was in 1970...
Oslo accords (1993) disaster then came the Gush Katif away disaster (2005)
A child on the battlefield with a rifle who half way knows how to use can shoot you dead just like an adult with a rifle. There is no easy answer but to fire back.
Straining at a gnat, swallowing a camel.
On Tik-Tok, I saw a rescuer discover the body of an infant in the rubble.
As he moved some building debris, the child’s head rolled off the body.
In his distress, the rescue worker quickly, reverently restored the child’s head back to its correct position on the shoulders.
It’s just part of the culture in some countries and it has been going on for ever. We
Just running around, hungry kids, sharpened sticks.
And he will grow with pain and fear and jealousy,
Taken in by schools of zealotry,
Who train orphans to make orphans evermore.
— Dar Williams
Where children don’t live long enough to become adults.
A.K.A. ‘Generational Warfare”.
“Y’all killed my grandad!”
It’s horrifying that hamass started a war with rape of everyone with an orifice, mass murder, and hostage taking in a War Crimes Only fashion, just as they executed their subsequent defense with human shields, use of civilian infrastructure (hospitals, mosques, schools, etc.), the use of children in battle, executing their own people for following Israel’s warnings to leave battle zones, etc.
They blow up so fast...
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I find it hard to believe that there are any kiddies in Gaza area since it has long been hamas/palestinian SOP to use them as shields while they shoot women and children.
Golda Meir
Average age of Gazan child- 26
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