Children in the Gaza Strip played outdoors when Israel was attacking nearby terror sites during Operation Protective Edge. Photo: Screenshot.

In July 2014, while Israel was attacking terror sites in Gaza, news reports encouraged children to play outdoors.

This report from Jafra pretends to be documenting Gaza kids defiantly playing while bombs explode nearby, as if this was their own idea. In fact the message being given was to encourage children to put themselves in danger, and to frame it to parents as somehow heroic.

Gaza parents didn’t care enough to protect their children from the danger of airstrikes – or from the hundreds of Hamas missiles that fell short.

Dead kids was a Hamas goal of the war, The media and brainwashed parents played their role. Every dead kid is a victory for Hamas.

And now, a year later, Gazans treating their kids like cannon fodder then is paying off as “human rights” organizations like Amnesty are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, now, to make it look like Israel was targeting these kids.

And you simply won’t find these NGOs that pretend to care about Gaza kids, like UNRWA or Amnesty or DCI-P, saying a word about how Gazans acted recklessly with their kids’ lives a year ago. It’s a cultural thing, you know.

Seriously – what kind of parents would allow their kids to play outside when you can see and hear explosions around you?

In contrast, this is what Israeli kids were being told to do by their teachers and parents during Red Alerts (this photo taken in Hod Hasharon).

Israeli children during red alert sirens. Photo: Elder of Ziyon.

That’s what normal people do to protect their kids in wartime.

And the video that proudly shows “defiant” kids being encouraged to face bombs with laughing and chants is evidence not of bravery, but of child abuse.