From the Atlanta Journal:

...In the Jenin refugee camp, the fighters said they were victorious because the out-manned and outnumbered Palestinian gunmen resisted the Israeli army for 10 days. It took just six days, they point out, for Israel to defeat neighboring Arab nations in the 1967 war.



Abdul Rahman Saadi, a slight boy with braces who said he wanted to grow up to become an electrical engineer, proclaimed earnestly, "This will not shake our morals."

Abdul said his battle assignment was lobbing homemade pipe bombs into buildings occupied by Israeli soldiers. He said he and six other boys, ages 10 to 14, surrendered to Israeli troops on the last day of fighting after they were surrounded.

"The reaction to this destruction will be more violence," he said.



Pay particular note to the term, "battle assignment." Someone in charge told these kids to do this. Cannon fodder.