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Military Training in PA Summer Camps Run by Jibril Rajoub
(MEMRI) B. Chernitsky and S. Schneidmann - This summer, the Pioneers of Tomorrow camps launched by the Higher Council for Youth and Sports (HCYS), an official PLO body headed by Jibril Rajoub, who is also Fatah Central Committee secretary, hosted 30,000 campers in 300 camps in the West Bank and Gaza. HCYS receives funding from the EU, the UN, and various countries including Japan and The Netherlands. In some camps, the campers wore military uniforms and received military training. They were taught the importance of the Palestinian struggle, glorifying the "martyrs," the Palestinian right of return, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa mosque, and more. At the concluding ceremony for the camps held at the PA presidential headquarters in Ramallah, PA President Mahmoud Abbas stressed the role of the youth in "liberation." Camper Tayseer Al-Shelah told Palestine TV, "We are the generation of the future [and] will liberate Jerusalem."