GAZA (ANS) -- The Hamas has upped its involvement in the entertainment industry this week with the creation of a “boy band” in the Gaza Strip.

Israel Today reported that members of the band, named “The Protectors of the Homeland,” are all Hamas gunmen.

A Hamas spokesman told Sky News that the band's purpose is to “raise (the public's) spirit through entertainment and encourage the troops.”

Israel Today reported that the Protectors will sing about dead terrorists, Islamic values and gaining control of Palestine from the Jews.

Last month, Hamas announced that it had begun construction on a $200 million movie production studio in Gaza. The studio, which Israel Today reported will be used to produce propaganda films against Israel, is being built on the ruins of a former Jewish community uprooted during Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza.

Modeling its plans on the example of Universal Studios in Hollywood, Israel Today reported the Hamas studio compound will eventually house Gaza’s first major amusement park.

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