Hamas, PA, and UNRWA Educate Gaza Schoolchildren for Jihad

Hamas, PA, and UNRWA Educate Gaza Schoolchildren for Jihad
Masked Hamas members march during a rally on April 19, 2005, in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, ahead of the 2006 election. Abid Katib/Getty Images
Peter Berkowitz
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Gaza Strip schools fostered the depraved sensibility that fueled the Oct. 7, 2023, butchery perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel. While Hamas exercised dictatorial authority over the whole of jihadi indoctrination in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority (PA) produced the textbooks and lesson plans, and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in significant measure, administered the schools. The defeat of jihadism in Gaza will not be complete without a fundamental reorientation of its educational system.
Peter Berkowitz
Peter Berkowitz
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Peter Berkowitz is a political scientist, former law professor, and the Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. From 2019 to 2021, he served as director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department. His writings are posted at PeterBerkowitz.com
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