Summer camp is over for the Palestinian youth and some adults. Time to put the training to practical use. Summer camp sure has changed since I was a boy.
Palestinian youths — many of them minors — and older residents of Gaza graduated late last week from what Hamas termed a “summer camp” in the Palestinian enclave.
In the camp, the youths learned skills ranging from traipsing down buildings to launching shoulder-fired missiles. According to AFP, during the camp some 25,000 Palestinians took part in combat training. The youngest were as young as 15; the oldest trainees are 60-years-old.
“The goal of these military training camps is to train the vanguard for liberation — spiritually, intellectually and physically — to be ready and able to play its role in liberation,” said a statement by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing in late July, when the camp opened.
Participants spent two weeks being “trained in military techniques and in firing live ammunition” as well as “first aid and rescue techniques.
Gazans young and old graduate from Hamas summer camp The Times of Israel
Palestinian youths — many of them minors — and older residents of Gaza graduated late last week from what Hamas termed a “summer camp” in the Palestinian enclave.
In the camp, the youths learned skills ranging from traipsing down buildings to launching shoulder-fired missiles. According to AFP, during the camp some 25,000 Palestinians took part in combat training. The youngest were as young as 15; the oldest trainees are 60-years-old.
“The goal of these military training camps is to train the vanguard for liberation — spiritually, intellectually and physically — to be ready and able to play its role in liberation,” said a statement by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing in late July, when the camp opened.
Participants spent two weeks being “trained in military techniques and in firing live ammunition” as well as “first aid and rescue techniques.
Gazans young and old graduate from Hamas summer camp The Times of Israel