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William O ' Brien, a professor of Georgetown University, wrote about active participation of Palestinian children in the First Intifada: " It appears that a substantial number, if not the majority, of troops of the intifada are young people, including elementary schoolchildren.

They are engaged in throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and other forms of violence.

" Arab journalist Huda Al-Hussein wrote in a London Arab newspaper on October 27, 2000: " While UN organizations save child-soldiers, especially in Africa, from the control of militia leaders who hurl them into the furnace of gang-fighting, some Palestinian leaders … consciously issue orders with the purpose of ending their childhood, even if it means their last breath.