While most children attending summer camps learn healthy extracurricular activities, last Saturday 30,000 youth in Gaza began attending terror-training camps organised by Hamas’ military wing, (Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades). Hamas has been running these camps since 2007. The experience aims to promote Hamas’ ideology and encourage them to participate in actual military operations. The Islamic Jihad offers a similar experience. This year’s camps are called ‘Talae Al Tahrir’ (Vanguards of Liberation). Photos released from the first day of camp by Hamas showed youth undergoing military training. ‘We prepare the Palestinian generations so that they will be fully prepared for defending Palestinian soil and the Palestinian people,’ a Hamas’ statement read. These annual summer events include weapons and explosives training, instruction in the techniques behind kidnappings and terror attacks and terror indoctrination. The ultimate objective of these camps is training, indoctrination and for the youth to act as an auxiliary force in any future confrontation with Israel.