Gaza – Hamas used children to help them dig numerous tunnels into Israel and Egypt, a 2012 paper written for the Journal of Palestine Studies reported.
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The paper, titled Gaza’s Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel’s Siege says that little had been done to stop the phenomenon of child labor during the digging of the tunnels by Hamas in Gaza.
In December 2011, the paper’s author Nicolas Pelham accompanied a police patrol in Gaza and reported that “nothing was done to impede the use of children in the tunnels, where, much as in Victorian coal mines, they are prized for their nimble bodies.”
He continued and said that “at least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials.”
Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge 21 days ago, IDF forces have uncovered 31 tunnels leading into Israel.
More than 1,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, have been killed during the offensive.
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Are those 160 children considered Islamic martyrs deserving of the 72 virgins for their underground role in Jihad? This seems to prove that Hamas considers people disposable and human life of little value.
The world will respond..”the author of this article was hired by the Zionist world.”
This piece was written in 2012. Two additional years of tunnel digging has since ensued. So the total number may be twice the 160 reported.
And it seems that the authors are blaming those deaths as well on Israel.
And where is the outcry of the human right groups?!
Well, don’t bother….
Of course, you’ll never find this type of article on Reuters, AP or CNN.
I don’t understand something, everybody new about this tunnels since 2011, and nobody did anything?
Not surprising. In the Iran-Iraq war in 1970s, Iraqis frequently mined fields where Iranians needed to pass. So Iranian officers routinely walked into schools, gave kids a pep talk and then sent them to demine the fields. The rationale of course being: it is far better to lose to mines not yet grown, not yet trained future soldiers (or, as civilized men know them, children) than able-bodied grown soldiers who can fight today.
This is how muslim vermin routinely act.
So in a paper written a couple of years ago, some academic knew enough about the tunnels to describe their construction. Yet oddly, Israeli intelligence missed all this and only now is discovering the tunnels.