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Syria: Jihadists pay children to become fighters of the Islamic State

They bribe the minors families and then train the children to violence and how to handle weapons

Newsroom October 7 07:51

Jihadists are looking for their continuants. Except than murdering, beheading and raping women and girls, they also pay families in order to take their children away and train them to be the next Jihadists.
12 years or even younger are the children that Jihadists approach and lure with money their desperate families, while transferring the children to secluded places where they teach them how to handle weapons and violence.
Member of an organization reports to the newspaper Corriere della, while keeping his identity unknown, that families are forced to give their children to the Islamic State and if they refuse they abduct them anyway.
According to the same source, a 13 year old boy who had be missing for a long time, returned to his family and described that he was in a special camp training to be a fighter of the Islamic State for money. In regards to the increased number of men supporting Jihadists, the man stated to the newspaper that majority of the fighters come from abroad.

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