Hamas’s Sick 9/11 Coloring Book for Kids: Brainwashing Exposed

In a chilling discovery on June 11, 2025, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) uncovered a children’s coloring book in a Khan Yunis home in Gaza that depicts the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, illustrating the twin planes crashing into the Twin Towers. The find, reported by journalist Amit Segal, exposes Hamas’s alarming efforts to indoctrinate young Gazans with propaganda that glorifies terrorism and martyrdom. The book, designed for children, transforms a tragedy that killed nearly 3,000 people into a perverse educational tool, reflecting Hamas’s broader strategy to radicalize the next generation.

Hamas, which has controlled over Gaza since 2007, has long used media to promote hatred against Israel and the West. Programs like Tomorrow’s Pioneers on Al-Aqsa TV, featuring characters like a Mickey Mouse lookalike preaching jihad, have urged children to aspire to “martyrdom.” A 2014 episode encouraged kids to “punch Jews” and “liberate Palestine,” while a 2013 segment invited children to express desires to die as martyrs. Such content desensitizes youth to violence, equating death with heroism. The 9/11 colouring book aligns with this pattern, celebrating an al-Qaeda attack that Hamas leaders, including co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, once praised as a “blessing” for exposing Western vulnerabilities.

This propaganda thrives amid the ongoing war and Gaza’s humanitarian crisis, with schools often serving as Hamas command centres, embedding militancy in education. The IDF’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots, launched in May 2025, aims to dismantle such infrastructure, but the psychological toll on children brainwashed to idolize terror persists. The colouring book’s discovery underscores the urgent need to counter Hamas’s indoctrination, which not only perpetuates violence but also robs Gazan youth of hope for peace, replacing it with a cycle of hatred and destruction.