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Gaza schoolboys being trained to use Kalashnikovs
 [GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Schools in Gazoo are providing military training to teenage boys in a programme that a human rights...not to be confused with individual rights,mind you... organization says is encouraging a culture of armed resistance and a new generation of fighters. One thing that's always struck me is the amount of time Paleostinians--and Moslem tough guys in general--spend lugging guns around, and how seldom they actually hit anything. The school curriculum includes weekly classes in which boys are familiarised with the use of Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons. Instructors from the interior ministry's national security arm also teach first aid, firefighting and the values of "discipline and responsibility". The course is supplemented with voluntary camps during school breaks, in which boys are instructed in handling guns and explosives. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist faction that governs Gazoo, assist in the training, according to Gazoo's ministry of education website. It denies that real weapons are used in training. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... a video shot at the Gamal Abdel Nasser school near Gazoo City appears to show students carrying Kalashnikovs and a boy firing an artillery shell at a mocked-up watchtower bearing an Israeli flag. Schoolboy Izzadine Mohammed confirmed to the Guardian that he had been trained in handling real weapons at a camp this year. About 5,000 boys have participated in the camps since the programme started in September, according to the education ministry. The weekly classes are part of the curriculum for about 37,000 pupils aged 15-17; parents are entitled to withdraw their sons from the course, but such a move is rare. The government is considering adapting the course for teenage girls next year. "There has been no final decision yet, we are still studying this option," said Mohammed Syam, general director of educational activities at the ministry. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-29 |
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