Alan Simons
Author | Writer | Social & Allyship Advocate

Gaza. Promoting violence to children has been part of daily life.

The glorification of killing people. Making that the ultimate goal in life.

“A good or bad future of a nation can be determined by its children, who will lead the nation in the future.” – Palestinian Sociologist Ghassan Zoqan.

Infantile omnipotence strikes at the heart of their children.

It’s a known fact, if you want to take control of the minds and souls of its people, you start with the children. In this, Hamas has excelled, and they’ve probably been better at it than Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaida, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Houthis, and all the other psychopaths living in the region combined.

Children as combatants

For years, Hamas, the rulers of the Gaza Strip, have abused their children through a systematic approach of instilling a hatred of Jews in the minds of their young children. Jews must be killed, the authorities have told their children.

Today, these children are the adults of Hamas.

“Murder is in their DNA.” – Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Facebook, October 15, 2025.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) “was established in 2001 as part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, the government institution for commemorating the legacy of the Israeli intelligence community, located at Glilot in central Israel. The ITIC collects and analyzes the information used in its reports, studies and bulletins related to terrorism and intelligence, and guarantees the quality and reliability of its publications.”

On July 22, 2014, ITIC reported, “As in years past, summer camps in the Gaza Strip were exploited by Hamas for radical Islamic ideological indoctrination and semi-military training.

“Every year summer camps are held throughout the Gaza Strip during the summer vacation, for the most part organized by Hamas (a small number are organized by the other terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip and by Islamic associations). This year more than 120,000 Gazan children and pupils in the eighth through twelfth grades participated. The camps featured social activities, sports and entertainment alongside radical Islamic Hamas ideological indoctrination and semi-military training (including instruction in firing rockets and abducting IDF soldiers).”

The report added, with reference to semi-military exercises for children:

“The exercises were an important part of the campers’ activities this year as well, and included uniformed campers crawling on their stomachs, standing in parade formation, firing light arms, simulating firing rockets into Israeli territory, abducting and beating IDF soldiers, etc. They also studied military theory, such as operating weapons. Their instructors wore uniforms and some of them belonged to the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military-terrorist wing. Military training is integrated into the Al-Futuwwa1 program held in the schools during the academic year, introduced into the curriculum by Hamas in 2012, for tens of thousands of Gazan youths who receive theoretical and practical military training as part of their required studies.”

The report can be read in its entirety <<here>>.

Today, as these children have grown into hate-mongering adults, the message hasn’t changed.

And so it continues in the Gaza Strip.

Western media have done little to explain the incongruities Hamas presents to the world, nor, in many cases, have they given a fair and balanced view of the sickness permeating throughout Gaza’s society.

For years, Hamas, on their children’s website, have encouraged children to die for Allah.

Hamas has had a special website for children, called Al-Fateh, “where violence is glorified and death for Allah is labelled a ‘victory.’ Al-Fateh means ‘The Conqueror.’ The Shahada deaths of terrorists during attacks against Israel have been presented to children as a time of celebration. A mother is quoted on the website as saying that when she heard that her son had become a Shahid (martyr), she bought dates, candies and coffee to give out. ”- PMW. March 7, 2006.

Killing machines

Today, murder also strikes a euphoric chord with those children who are now adults. For being devoid of reality, it appeals to many of Hamas’ adults, who, through their earlier years of exposure to child abuse and indoctrination, prefer to return to their childhood era, where magical thinking reigned supreme.

In the Gaza Strip, it has been as much a part of the child’s growth as learning to count.

What a world we are living in!●

About the Author
Simons is an author, writer and social & allyship advocate. He also publishes several online social news media services, relating to intolerance, hate, antisemitism, Islamophobia, conflict, and terrorism. As a diplomat, he served as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Rwanda to Canada, post-genocide era. He recently published his eighth book.
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