How social media boosts terrorists' recruitment of minors
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June 30, 2023
(JNS) — Social-media networks are being exploited by Palestinian terror factions to boost the recruitment of minors, an Israeli military source has told JNS.
The source noted that although the trend of recruiting minors is not new, its current form and scope are both relatively new phenomena.
In 2004 during the Second Intifada, 16-year-old Hussam Abdo, who was stopped at a Huwara military checkpoint wearing a suicide-bomb belt, made headlines across the globe.
Since then, however, the smartphone revolution and the arrival of social media networks have created many new recruitment oppor...
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