On Friday, a fifteen-year-old Syrian boy blew himself among a crowd of people in a funeral ceremony in the city of Anbar in western Iraq, causing the death of more than 30 people, activists reported.
The child was apparently equipped with an explosive belt by an ISIS engineering unit and pushed into attacking some Arab figures during the funeral of one of the residents in Anbar.
Qasurah ash-Shami, 15, a Syrian recruit in the ranks of the IS group in Anbar carried out a “jihadist operation in a funeral gathering in Anbar”, killing more than 30 people, and wounding more than 30 others, pro-IS media sources reported.
Some of the injured are in critical conditions, according to pro-IS accounts on Tweeter.
Salma Rashidi, an Iraqi human rights activist, said: “It’s a horrible crime masterminded by this terrorist group.”
“These barbaric people are recruiting children and killing them in a heinous manner,” she argued.
ISIS has recruited at least 400 children in Syria in the past three months and given these so-called “Cubs of the Caliphate” military training and hardline indoctrination, a monitoring group reported.
At the training camps, recruited children learn to fire live ammunition and fight in battles. The ISIS terrorists also recruit children as informants and as guards for their headquarters.
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