Survivors of the deadly October 7 Hamas attack on Israel say “drastic” measures are needed to stop the terror group indoctrinating Gaza’s children with their misguided and violent worldview.
“It’s not enough for us to get rid of Hamas,” said Adele Raemer, 68, who spent 14 hours locked in her safe room as Hamas terrorists burned Kibbutz Nirim to the ground around her.
“Something very drastic has to happen to re-educate whoever lives on the other side, so the threat is neutralized,” he told The Post.
An educator in Israel for more than four decades, Raemer has regularly volunteered in educational initiatives with Palestinian teachers over the years and has seen the kinds of ideas impressed upon Gazan children in classrooms by the Hamas regime.
“These children are taught hate in their textbooks. They were taught, ‘If you have six Jews and you kill four of them, how many Jews do you have left?’ literally,” he said.
Hamas textbooks have been widely criticized for distorting and fabricating facts about Palestinian and Israeli history, along with pushing an antisemitic worldview that frames anyone killed in the conflict with Israel as a “martyr.”
A Palestinian girl poses with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher at a Hamas weapons show in the Gaza Strip in June 2023.AP
Maya Parizer, 27, had sympathized with the plight of Gazan children during the 2014 conflict with Israel — even argued on their behalf during heated discussions with friends at the time — but wondered “Is there hope in this world?” after surviving the massacre at Pesta Nova on October 7.
“Those children, the innocent children that I debated and fought with my friends, said ‘They are innocent, they just want to live a life like you like me,’ They are terrorists today.”
Hamas is known for indoctrinating children against Israel not only in classrooms, but also in military summer camps where they wear uniforms, learn to shoot guns, and are trained in military tactics, according to the Times of Israel.
“They are the people who kidnapped my friend, they are the people who want to kill as many of us as possible,” Parizer said.
“How can I believe that they are good people there, when I see what they have done to my friends, what they have done to women, what they have done to children?” he added. “I still care, even though I don’t think they deserve it.”
Hamas is known for indoctrinating Palestinian youth against Israel at an early age with violent PA military propaganda
Raemer said people around the world who have demonstrated for the Palestinians — carrying signs reading “By any means necessary” and chanting “From the river to the sea …” — do not understand that the enemy of Palestine is not Israel, but the extremist ideology of Hamas and its ruling exploitative.
“It’s all about the oppressed, supporting the oppressed. But what they don’t understand is that those who are oppressed are first oppressed by their own leaders,” he said.
“We need to get rid of Hamas, not only for us, but also for the good of the Palestinian people.
“For the people who live where I live, [it’s] in their best interest for the people on the other side to prosper. And we’ve been saying that all along. But when they say ‘Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea,’ [meaning the eradication of Israel] we have to understand that it is a genocidal war cry, and I take them at their word.”
Hamas fighters drop names of boys who signed up for military summer training camp in Gaza in 2021AP
Netta Atzili, 20, whose parents were taken hostage by Hamas while she barricaded herself in her apartment with nothing more than a kitchen knife, said the terror group did not care about the lives of Palestinians – only their value as cannon fodder in its quest to destroy Israel.
“I think it’s very important for people to understand that this is not Israel versus Palestine. It’s Hamas over everything else,” he said.
“It is terrible that people from Palestine died because of our attack. But Hamas, they knew it would happen. And not only do they know that, they count us killing their civilians as collateral damage, they use them as human shields. They put their supplies and infrastructure under hospitals in densely populated areas, in schools.”
“They are a cancer to society, they will blackmail, they will put their public at risk, they will do anything to hurt us,” he said.
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