Disturbing footage emerging from Daraa in southern Syria shows a school operating under the Ministry of Education of the Ahmed al-Sharaa (al-Julani) regime being used as a military training camp for youths, including instruction in the use of small arms.
This is not symbolic activity or extracurricular programming — it is full military boot camp training taking place inside an educational institution.
The activity is occurring not far from the Golan Heights, and joins a growing series of recent incidents and visual evidence from southern Syria that increasingly resemble patterns long seen in Gaza under Hamas rule: the militarization of civilian spaces and the systematic indoctrination of youth through the education system. This is not Gaza — it is southern Syria — but the warning signs are strikingly similar.
Such footage should immediately raise red flags within Israel’s security establishment. As part of an ongoing series of exclusive reports and an in-depth investigation into the education system under the al-Julani regime, additional documentation exposing the nature of schooling and activities inside Syrian schools will be published in the coming period.