February 12 is Red Hand Day, a world wide initiative to raise awareness against the use of child soldiers
This could be an opportunity to raise awareness about the cynical use of Palestinian children as soldiers in the war to eliminate Israel. Instead, highly politicized group have blurred the message, claiming "Children are involved in numerous armed conflicts all over the world.
Recent examples are Afghanistan, Chad, Centralafrican Republic,
Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), India, Iraq,
Israel and the occupied territories, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan,
Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Thailand and Yemen.
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Are you active on social media?
You can held build awareness of the cruel use of children as soldiers in the Palestinian territories.
Use the hashtags #RedHandDay and #UNICEF, and tweet out photos and articles that document this egregious form of child abuse.
Thank you for posting this. It's a very troubling issue.
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