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| Hamas said to recruit 30,000 Gaza youths into its military wing |
| 2025-04-21 |
| [IsraelTimes] Saudi report says most recruits lack real training beyond rocket launching, guerilla tactics; at least 25 reported killed in IDF strikes across Strip on Sunday Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has recruited around 30,000 young people from Gaza to join their ranks, according to a Sunday report. The Saudi Al Arabiya channel, citing Palestinian sources, said in its report that most of the recruits had previously undergone training in secret military camps run by the wing. The report did not clarify if the training camps were still being held during the war, or if they only took place beforehand. However, the new recruits reportedly lack military skills beyond “guerrilla warfare,” rocket fire, and planting explosives. The report did not mention an exact timeframe for when they were recruited, but is likely referring to a recent period in the ongoing war, which resumed last month following the collapse of the ceasefire-hostage release agreement that was signed in January. According to the report, Hamas is short on weapons, particularly drones and long-range missiles, and has begun recycling waste from missiles, likely unexploded IDF munitions, and using it to manufacture ground-based explosive devices and other improvised weapons. Gaza’s civil defense agency reported that Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip. “Since dawn today, the occupation’s airstrikes have killed 20 people and injured dozens more, including children and women across the Gaza Strip,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defense agency, told AFP. In a separate statement later, the agency reported that five people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a group of civilians in eastern Rafah. The figures could not be independently verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. Since March 18, when Israel resumed its offensive against Hamas, the IDF says it has struck over 1,400 targets in Gaza. Hamas’s health ministry has said that over 1,500 people have been killed in that timeframe, in figures that are not verified, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in the war to over 51,000. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 The Japanese were doing the same thing at the end of WWII in preparation for the invasion of the home islands. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2025-04-21 18:33 |
| #7 Remember how the Nazis mobilized the Hitler Youth just before the end? And Saddam had a six million strong "people's militia?" |
| Posted by: Fred 2025-04-21 16:27 |
| #6 "30,000 Gaza children are killed by Israel!" |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-21 11:39 |
| #5 30,000 more targets then... |
| Posted by: Spats Omusose3372 2025-04-21 11:16 |
| #4 File this with "Houthis hit US Carrier" |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2025-04-21 09:07 |
| #3 Poss stealing from the Yemenis. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-21 08:56 |
| #2 'Bringing hostages home is important, but we want to neutralize threat of another October 7 massacre,' Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explains. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-21 05:18 |
| #1 "Hamas said..." Pretty much sums up the credibility of the recruiting claims? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-04-21 04:27 |