LONDON: A video showing students at a school in Kuwait carrying fake guns and parading around a courtyard in an apparent display of support for the Hamas militant group in Gaza has been slammed on social media. Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida on Thursday published a clip lasting nearly a minute-and-a-half featuring students from several schools in the country demonstrating their solidarity for Palestine as part of a nationwide initiative called for by the Ministry of Education. The ministry had issued a statement for schools to show support for Palestine during morning assemblies by organizing activities and exhibitions that educated students about the cause. The first 30 seconds of the video appeared to be filmed at a school for boys, where a group of students dressed in black, and wearing the kufiya to hide their faces, were seen carrying fake guns and marching in a courtyard surrounded by yellow smoke. In a post, X user Muhammad Ahmed Al-Mulla said: “I will not address the minister of education, I will address two people: the first, Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and the second, the Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. “What are these farces in government institutions that have reached schools? Fake weapons, military alignment, and playing the role of an external militia.” Al-Mulla added that the film clip just lacked, “the Hezbollah flag flying with the yellow smoke.” Another user, qx77, said: “It is normal for them to sympathize with Palestine, but Kuwaiti intelligence must monitor those in charge of this school.” Ibrahim Al-Zaabi described it as an “unfortunate educational scene.” Abdul Hadi Al-Ahbabi said: “What are these ideas that are being planted in school children?” Emirati academic Dr. Talal Alharthi said: “My sense now of the danger of the Palestinian factions to the Arab Gulf region has increased more than before. “Be careful, as the policy of Palestinianization in the Gulf has begun to spread and increase more than before, and I fear that it is an Iranian plan to strike the cultural foundation of our Gulf.”