Islamic State 's children have taken centre stage in the latest propaganda video from the terror group purporting to show the apparent beheading of eight Syrians . The video , posted on social media today , claims to show ISIS fighters cutting off the heads of men said to be Shi'ite Muslims . The eight men , wearing the orange jumpsuits which have become associated with the group 's sick propaganda , were said to beheaded in the central Syrian province of Hama . Blindfolded and with their hands bound behind their backs , the captives are seen being led forward in a field by teenage boys . Scroll down for video . Sick : Islamic State 's children have taken centre stage in the latest propaganda video released by the group . Bound : The men wear the orange jumpsuits which have become associated with the group 's sick propaganda . They are then seeing being handed over to a group of masked fighters and each is given a knife from a smiling boy before the hostages are forced to face down on the ground before being butchered . An Islamic State fighter speaks in the video , using a derogatory term for Shi'ites and calling them 'impure infidels . ' The fighter says the current military campaign against ISIS will only make them stronger . 'Our swords will soon , God willing , reach the Nuseiries and their allies like Bashar and his party , ' he says - a reference to Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanon 's militant Hezbollah group which is fighting on his side . Slaughtered : With their hands tied , the hostages are seen being led forward in a field by teenage boys . The word Nuseiry is a derogatory term to refer to Assad 's Alawite sect , an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam . Lebanese media have reported that one of the murdered men is Younes Hujairi , who was kidnapped from his hometown of Arsal near the Syrian border in January . The country 's state-run National News Agency quoted Mr Hujairi 's family as saying he had been beheaded . Members of Mr Hujairi 's family said they have seen pictures of an IS fighter carrying his severed head on social media , it was reported . It is not clear if Mr Hujairi was one of one of the men beheaded in the video - as is a Sunni , while the video states that all the beheaded men were Shii'tes . The border town of Arsal , where Mr Hujairi was kidnapped , was also the site of a bold joint raid by the Islamic State group and Syria 's al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front last August . Smiling : A young boy is seen cheerfully handing out knives to each one of the masked fighters . Killed : The eight hostages are then forced to face down on the ground before being butchered . They captured 24 Lebanese soldiers and policemen . Four of those hostages have been killed so far , two of them beheaded by ISIS . The video could not be immediately independently verified , but it appears to be genuine . The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that the video is authentic . The terror group has beheaded scores of captives from across the world since capturing large parts of Iraq and Syria last year . Earlier this month , a video was released showing the beheading of three Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters .
New video shows fighters cutting off the heads of 24 Shi'ite Muslims . Hostages were said to beheaded in the central Syrian province of Hama . The boys lead each hostage into a field before handing knives to fighters . The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said the video is authentic .