Instead of waiting for Israel to strike Palestinian militant positions embedded among civilians, the emerging approach calls for children to participate in combat in an active way.
Jenin, August 31 – Armed groups in the most restive city under nominal Palestinian Authority rule conducted another in a long series of meetings today to discuss the tactics and strategies surrounding the deaths of underage locals in confrontations with Israel’s military, and decided to continue addressing the phenomenon by giving those underage locals weapons, or involving them in scouting activity, thus removing the minors’ noncombatant status but enabling Palestinians, activists, and credulous Western media to claim that Israel kills Palestinian children.
Commanders from at least three Iran-backed terrorist factions in Jenin convened last night to discuss the ongoing phenomenon of Israel Defense Force troops killing Palestinian children. The groups agreed in response to the phenomenon – more than a dozen Palestinian minors have been killed in clashes in the last two years – to increase the use of Palestinian children in combat and combat-support roles such as snipers, ammunition mules, scouts, and surveillance drone operators.
Palestinian terrorists have exploited children for combat purposes before; the use of noncombatants as human shields has featured as a prominent Palestinian tactic in multiple wars with Israel. The evolving policy under discussion represents an expansion of that methodology into the offensive sphere: instead of waiting for Israel to strike Palestinian militant positions embedded among civilians, the emerging approach calls for children to participate in combat in an active way. That aspect did not originate with the Palestinians either; child soldiers have fought in numerous wars – but many fewer wars in the modern era, when international bodies monitor and address, at least in theory, such violations of International Law and the Laws of Armed Conflict.
“There are two ways this can go,” explained one Hamas commander, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “One, the enemy fears the continued public relations disaster inherent in killing children even if those children are trying to kill them or get them killed, that compromises their operations and puts their men at risk, and we exploit that weakness to deal the enemy blow after blow until Palestine is free.”
“The other,” he continued, “is that the enemy continues to defend itself despite the youth we throw at them, and the international community, outraged that Jews defend themselves, but disguising it as outrage that the Jews ‘target children,’ apply pressure that prevent the Jews from any decisive action that might deter us from further attacks or neutralize our capacity to mount such attacks. We continue doing hat we’ve always done until Palestine is free. At our current pace, that should only take eight hundred years.”
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