Gazan children graduate from Islamic Jihad’s military camp

Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, concluded its summer training camps with the participation of more than 2,000 boys ages 14 to 17, who received military training simulating a confrontation with the Israeli army.
Palestinian youths attend a military summer camp organized by the Islamic Jihad Movement, in Gaza City, June 27, 2021.
Palestinian youths attend a military summer camp organized by the Islamic Jihad Movement, in Gaza City, June 27, 2021. - MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A group of Palestinian boys dressed in black military uniforms with black paint covering their faces climbed nets suspended on iron bars and jumped amidst thick black smoke emanating from burning rubber tires.

Others competed on iron obstacles and then jumped over burning tires, executing the instructions of masked members affiliated with al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

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