The Palestinian Jihad Summer Camps by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  June 24, 2021 at 5:00 am       As the international community seeks ways to help the residents of the Gaza Strip after the recent war between Israel and Hamas... and PIJ are diverting their budgets to training children to become soldiers in the war to destroy Israel. Palestinian Islamic Jihad confirms that... the Palestinians "are preparing the liberation generation for the 'great liberation' battle for this blessed land." They have enough funds to launch camps to brainwash and indoctrinate their own children, but are not prepared to invest in rebuilding homes that were destroyed or damaged during the last Israel-Hamas war. For Hamas and PIJ, the ambition to destroy Israel is evidently stronger than the desire to protect the lives of their children and raise them to become, say, doctors or engineers. The children who are now undergoing military training in the Gaza Strip will soon appear as masked men in the armed groups of Hamas and PIJ. This bodes rather ill for the Biden administration's talk about a "two-state solution" and the need to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. Hamas has called on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to register their young boys for summer military camps. "The camps aim to ignite the flame of jihad in the generation of liberation, to instill Islamic values ​​and to prepare the next triumphant army for the liberation of Palestine," Hamas said in a statement. Pictured: Masked gunmen from Hamas' Izaddin al-Qassam Brigades register children for their summer camps, on June 14, 2021, in Gaza City. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images) As the international community seeks ways to help the residents of the Gaza Strip after the recent war between Israel and Hamas, the leaders of the Palestinians are busy preparing the next generation for more hate and violence. The two major Palestinian groups controlling the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), recently launched campaigns to recruit thousands of Palestinian children and teenagers to their own summer camps. The young recruits are not going to be taught how to swim or play soccer. They are not going to be part of a Palestinian Cub Scouts. Instead, the goal of the camps, according to Hamas and PIJ, is "to ignite the flame of jihad [holy war] among the generation of liberation, instill Islamic values and prepare the next triumphant army for the liberation of Palestine." Continue Reading Article