 JERUSALEM - Hundreds of members of the radical Palestinian Hamas movement receive military training in Iran every year, the head of Israel’s internal security service was quoted as saying on Tuesday. ‘Hundreds of Hamas men are sent for training in Iran, and not for short trainings of a week or a month, but for long sessions,’ MP Zvi Hendel told reporters after hearing Shin Beth chief Yuval Diskin brief parliament’s influential foreign affairs and defence committee.
According to Diskin, ‘the training in Iran is of high quality, and lasts several months,’ Hendel added.
| I wonder if the Iranians make them jump through the dreaded 'ring of fire'. |
Diskin also said that ‘an unprecedented quantity of weapons was smuggled into the Gaza Strip during 2006, including 31 tonnes of explosives.’
| Which is what some predicted would happen when you pulled out of Gaza. |
The statements came amid growing calls in Israel to launch a new military operation in the Gaza Strip to counter the reported arming of militant groups and to stem the rocket fire into the Jewish state.
| Do a thorough job this time. |
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