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Hamas naval vessel posing as fishing boat said destroyed off Gaza coast
 [IsraelTimes] A Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", naval vessel posing as a fishermen’s boat off the Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... coast this week was the source of a "potential threat" to Israeli ships in the area, according to an unsourced report by Channel 12 on Friday. The network’s military correspondent reported that many of the details of the incident on Monday were banned from publication by the military censor, but the Hamas boat was destroyed and sunk by a missile fired by Israeli forces, according to the report which could not be verified. It was not immediately clear how many people were aboard, but Channel 12 reported that the boat was operated by members of Hamas’s naval commando unit. The Paleostinian news site Shehab had reported that the boat was destroyed by two missiles off the coast of the Gazook city of Khan Younis. On Monday, the Israel Defense Forces said it uncovered a "potential threat" to naval ships off the Gaza coast, without elaborating on the nature of the threat. "Earlier today, our troops spotted suspicious naval activity in the maritime zone along the Gaza Strip which posed a potential threat to Israeli Navy vessels," the military said. "IDF troops detected the activity and thwarted it," the military added. After initially saying additional information would be released about the incident, the military refrained from commenting further. "The IDF will continue to take action against dangerous threats on the maritime front," the military added. The Israeli military has repeatedly warned that the Hamas terror group, the de facto ruler of Gaza, as well as other terrorist organizations in the Strip have been developing a number of different maritime-based weapons, including naval mines, explosives-laden kamikaze boats and autonomous submarines. A senior Israeli military commander said earlier this week that, according to IDF estimates, Hamas has replenished its arsenal since a 2014 war with Israel and now has a vast collection of rockets, guided missiles and drones. It also has acquired dozens of unmanned aerial vehicles and has an army of some 30,000 men, including 400 naval commandos who have received sophisticated training and equipment to carry out seaborne operations, the commander added. He spoke on condition of anonymity under military guidelines. Related: Khan Younis: 2020-10-25 Islamic Jihad in ‘state of alert’ over deteriorating health of security prisoner Khan Younis: 2020-10-25 Background on the latest Hamas cross-border tunnel destroyed by Israel Khan Younis: 2020-10-21 Another terror tunnel crossing dozens of meters into Israel from Gaza, Gaza rocket stopped by Iron Dome, Israel bombs Khan Younis in response Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-28 |
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