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This is the chilling training video used to lure parents and their ­children into the evil clutches of Islamic State.

The Sunday People reveals the seven-minute film, which has ­become a key propaganda tool as the terror group targets converts like the three British sisters who fled to Syria with their nine children last week.

The slickly produced video shows child soldiers as young as 11 fighting in a cage and firing machine-guns.

Six youngsters in combat gear and wearing balaclavas trade kicks and punches as a gun-toting instructor yells encouragement.

Other scenes show the same enforcer, thought to be in his 30s, whacking recruits with a club and ordering them to smash stacks of clay tiles with their fists.

The video is accompanied by an eerie soundtrack of Arabic music and hypnotic chanting.

Professor Anthony Glees, director of Buckingham University’s Centre of Security and Intelligence Studies, likened it to Hitler’s ­propaganda film Triumph of the Will.

He said: “This is sickening ­glorification of the brutalisation of kids for IS. It is designed to appeal to mothers and fathers but children are also the target. The Government must act.”

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The footage is said to have been filmed at Mosul in Iraq. IS is increasingly ­using the web to lure recruits from the UK.

Sisters Khadija, 30, Zohra, 33, and Sugra Dawood, 34, fled to Syria from Bradford to join up – taking their nine children aged three to 15.

Prof Glees added: “Mothers ­elsewhere could be vulnerable, thinking their child could be a failure in Britain – or join IS and become a warrior.”