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VIDEO PODCAST: The RPG kids of Gaza

The short life of Suhaib Abu Labad shows how Gaza’s “RPG kids” are used twice — first as fighters, then as civilian casualties.

He was fifteen or sixteen, filmed in the rubble of Gaza with an anti-tank rocket almost as long as he was tall. His name was Suhaib Abu Labad, and after he was killed, that same footage was folded into a Hamas martyr video celebrating him as a fighter.

Yet his name also appears on the Gaza Health Ministry’s list of the dead — counted among the children killed by Israel, the toll the world uses to condemn it.

Suhaib is not alone. For years, monitors including the United Nations have documented armed groups in Gaza recruiting minors, while Hamas runs youth camps that put teenagers through live weapons training.

Handing a child a rocket launcher is not resistance; it is a war crime. And when that same child is then counted only as a civilian victim, the numbers stop telling the truth.

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One response to “VIDEO PODCAST: The RPG kids of Gaza”

  1. AGR says:

    Two of my men were killed by a seven year old with a grenade, his grenade set off an ambush that was quickly put down. The boy was killed as well, but from what I see here is that there is only one difference between the communists and Islam, Islam has a god. The communists have only been around for a couple hundred years but have managed to kill as many if not more people than Islam over the period of nearly 14 hundred years. Both ideologies like to think they are best for humanity while at the same time they do nothing to make life better for humanity. Cruelty, hatred, poverty and rebellion against anything that brings about success and peace among people groups is not an ideal ideology. The left has allied themselves with these two groups with the idea that they will have a part in the spoils of war against those who oppose them.
    The scripture says different, but it is still going to play out to the end that will bring peace for a thousand years before the final judgement of mankind. The word of the Lord is now playing out on a daily basis, we all must make a choice as to what we will believe and who we will trust, we must choose, wisely.

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