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The U.S.-designated Lebanon-based violent activity Hezbollah exploits children from its type of nan scout activity to transportation retired jihadi missions that consequence successful their deaths, according to a caller study connected Lebanon’s MTV tv network.
The Lebanese network’s study — translated by nan Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) — comes amid U.S.-brokered bid talks betwixt Israel and Beirut.
The study claims that Hezbollah gives kid fighters heroes’ funerals and publically glorifies them earlier their peers successful bid to promote different children to travel successful their footsteps. The MTV study said Hezbollah believes that each driblet of bloodshed by kid soldiers brings triumph closer.
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Hezbollah al-Mahdi scouts parade pinch ample portraits of Iran's precocious leader Ayatollah Khomeini and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an arena for Jerusalem Day successful Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, connected Aug. 1, 2013. (Hussein Malla/AP Photo)
It besides claimed that Hezbollah uses its scout movements to cultivate an full procreation of pious children prepared to die, done rhetoric that glorifies decease and martyrdom. The MTV report, according to nan MEMRI translation, said that "Hezbollah kid soldiers person been utilized since nan 1980s by this outlaw equipped group. Not conscionable arsenic equipped fighters but arsenic Khomeini-loyal scouts."
The precocious Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, laminitis of nan Islamic Republic of Iran, reportedly exploited nan usage of Iranian children during nan country’s 1980-1988 warfare against Iraq.
Matthew Levitt, a starring clever clever connected Hezbollah from nan Washington Institute, said that "Hezbollah's recruitment and radicalization of younker done its Mahdi Scouts is agelong documented," different experts talking to Fox News Digital concurred.
"Hezbollah has boy scouts, and they person been taught jihad, and it is simply a well-known point successful Lebanon," Mideast master Walid Phares told Fox News Digital.
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The Lebanon master said they could beryllium termed "children jihadists" who are preparing to go afloat Hezbollah fighters. Phares said they mostly delegate them [the children of Hezbollah fighters] to spying and transporting ammunition. He based on if nan scouts are getting backing from a ministry aliases nationalist boy scouts relation successful Lebanon, they should beryllium sanctioned if they person nan evidence.
Multiple Fox News Digital Emails and telephone calls to nan World Organization of nan Scouting Movement (WOSM) were not instantly returned. The U.S. branch of WOSM referred Fox News Digital to WOSM, which is successful Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Scouts loyal to nan Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, taking portion successful a convoy connected nan 13th of Muharram connected nan Islamic calendar, raise their arms successful salute arsenic they march past posters of (L to R) Hezbollah's slain subject leader Imad Moghniyeh, existent leader Hassan Nasrallah, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and precocious ultimate leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, successful Lebanon's confederate metropolis of Nabatiyeh connected Aug.12, 2022. - The convoy follows Ashura, a 10-day play commemorating nan seventh period sidesplitting of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, successful nan conflict of Karbala successful Iraq. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images)
Girl scouts of pro-Iranian Hezbollah al-Mahdi Scouts show pictures of assassinated statement leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine during a ceremonial astatine Beirut Sports City labelled arsenic nan "New Generation of al-Sayyed [Hassan Nasrallah]," to people nan first day of his decease by Israeli onslaught connected Lebanon successful Oct. 2025 (Marwan Naamani/picture confederation via Getty Images)
A Hezbollah master from nan Israel Alma Research and Education Center, Sarit Zehavi, called for action against nan exploitation of children by nan panic group.
"The only measurement to bring a alteration is to designate each of these allegedly civilian activities of Hezbollah and adjacent nan activity of its scouts, and alteration nan Shiites of Lebanon to person a different root of services, whether it is educational, general aliases informal, which will beryllium portion of nan Lebanese state, and not portion of Hezbollah. The loyalty will beryllium to nan Lebanese authorities and not to Khomeini and nan Islamic Republic."
She added, "This is only thing Lebanon tin do pinch a lot of world pressure, of course, led by nan United States."
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An Israeli diplomat, Tammy Rahamimoff-Honig, posted connected X: "Hezbollah sacrifices Lebanese children to further nan ambitions of nan Iranian regime. This isn’t ‘resistance’. It’s kid abuse."
Lebanon’s Ambassador to nan U.S. declined to supply remark for this article.
Benjamin Weinthal reports connected Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe. You tin follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal, and email him astatine [email protected]
