Thousands of children take part in summer camps organised by the PIJ (Picture: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

Summer camps are a little different in the Gaza strip.

These pictures show young Palestinians taking part in military-style activities organised by the Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ).

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Last year, some 6,000 boys, aged between six and 16, graduated from the camp in Khan Younis, according to local reports.

Going to camp over the summer is a common thing for Palestinian children to do.


Both Hamas and the UN run their own camps, which are free for children to attend, according to Ynetnews.

Each year young Palestinians take part in military-style activities organised by the Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ). (Picturer: EPA/HATEM OMAR)

Activities are varied but the PIJ camps include military style training as well as religious education.

Crawling under barbed wire and through tunnels clutching wooden rifles, running between burning tyres and shooting practice are said to take place.

The camps take place in the context of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.



Some 1.5 million Palestinians live in the Gaza strip, which is the setting from many armed and deadly disputes between the two sides.

(Picture: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

(Picture: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

(Picture: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

(Picture: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

(Picture: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

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