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A Hamas terrorist serving as a role model for school children: Pictures of Issa Khalil Shawkah, an expert in preparing explosive devices, appears on postcards, on a poster in Bethlehem featuring Hamas “martyrs” and on the “Student Instruction Card.” Presenting those who died for the sake of Allah in the violent struggle against Israel as roles model is one conspicuous facet of the indoctrination process undergone by

     
   

Picture of Issa Khalil Shawkah [in the box] on the “Student Instruction Card” distributed by the Hamas Islamic Student Movement.

The top one was published by Hamas/Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the bottom by the Palestinian Islamic
 

Issa Khalil Shawkah died on July 14, 1997, in a “work accident” in an apartment in Bethlehem which served as a Hamas laboratory for the manufacture of explosive devices. He was a Hamas operative as well as one of the top aides of Adel Awadallah, head of the Hamas military infrastructure in the PA-administered West Bank until his death at the hands of Israeli security forces.


Picture of Issa Khalil Shawkah [in the box] on a poster of dead Hamas “martyrs” [i.e., terrorists] from Bethlehem
     
     
   
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