Growing up in the Palestinian enclave leaves the young numbed to the violence of their daily lives
Sat 14 Oct 2023 15.56 CESTTwo decades ago the mother of nine-year-old Abdul Rahman Jadallah described to me how she twice lost her child. Once to a worship of death and then to death itself.
“Rahman went to the morgue and kissed Haneen,” Attalah said. “He came home and told us he had promised the dead girl he would die too. I made him apologise to his father.” But it is no surprise to Palestinian child psychologists and social workers watching children like Rahman at the time that others grew up to join Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Or that some would care so little for human life that they would delight in murdering more than 1,200 Israelis, including young children, and be willing to die doing it.
Repeated military assaults on Gaza did little to weaken Hamas either. In 2004, tanks and bombs flattened a large part of Rafah on the southern tip of the enclave, just the latest of repeated invasions. Then came the Gaza Wars of 2008 and 2014 that left thousands of Palestinians dead.Yet a decade later Hamas was able to launch the most effective if terrible attack in its history, and have no problem recruiting men to carry it through.
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