ICC Note: Islamic State militants have reportedly chopped off the hands of two children who refused to execute civilians in a training program. The children were both between the ages of 10 and 12, and did not comply when jihadists ordered them to execute civilians in front of their families. This brutality and training is part of the militant’s final attempt at terrorizing those still living under their control in Iraq. Security forces continue to liberate more of Mosul and Nineveh each day.

02/06/2017 Iraq (Christian Post): The Islamic State terror group has carried a brutal attack on two children by chopping off their hands as punishment for refusing to execute people in front of their families.

“The Islamic State’s leaders issued orders to train a group of children on fighting in the group’s camps in Nables neighborhood, in the western side of Nineveh,” a source with Alsumaria News said on Thursday.

“Meanwhile, members of the Islamic State terrorist group amputated the hands of two children, for refusing to carry out the execution sentence on two civilians in front of their families,” the source added.

The only additional information provided about the brutal attack on the two children was that they were between 10 and 12 years old.

Mosul is one of IS’ last remaining strongholds in the country, and Iraqi ground forces and allies, backed by the U.S., have been fighting for months to liberate the city.

The Islamic radical group has been indoctrinating young boys as soldiers, calling them the “Cubs of the Caliphate,” and has carried out mass rapes of women and children, enslaving thousands.

There have been numerous stories of jihadists forcing children to carry out executions which are featured in IS’ propaganda footage.

“In the sickening new footage, children and pensioners are shown being forced to carry out horrific executions,” the Mirror reported, describing the contents of the video at the time.

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