Hamas Presses Kids for Combat Duty

A hospitalized 16-year-old Palestinian boy made a startling revelation to Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson: In a shared room on…

By July 09, 2006

A hospitalized 16-year-old Palestinian boy made a startling revelation to Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson:

In a shared room on the hospital’s fourth floor, Wissam al-Sheik Khalil recovered from a bullet wound to his hip. Khalil, a 16-year-old with an adolescent’s wispy mustache, said Hamas gunmen forced him to carry an explosive charge across a street watched by Israeli soldiers.

“As soon as I picked up the box I was hit,” he said.

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