13,000 teens complete Hamas training camps to emulate ’suicide martyrs‘ – Numbers more than double in second year of Gaza’s ‘Pioneers of Liberation’ program; females also trained | The Times of Israel

The Hamas government in Gaza celebrated the graduation on Monday of paramilitary camps geared at training high-school children “to follow in the footsteps of the suicide martyrs.”

The camps, titled “the pioneers of liberation,” are run by Hamas’s ministries of education and interior. Some 13,000 students in grades 10-12 participated in the one-week training camps this year, compared to 5,000 last year when the program was launched, Israeli sources with knowledge of the program said.