GAZA: WE HAVE 400 KAMIKAZE READY, HAMAS WARNS
(ANSAmed) - GAZA, SEPTEMBER 28 - If Israel decided to return
to occupy the Gaza Strip, it would find 400 kamikaze in
expectation ready to die for their cause, and 50,000 combatants:
Hamas member Nizar Rayan issued the threat to Arab journalists
today.
Rayan said that "the most surprising thing" is that among
the 400 kamikaze ready to self-explode "against the armed tanks
of Israel" there are 200 women. Already in the past Hamas had
utilised women to commit suicide attacks, but until now there
had been no confirmation that others had been trained to act.
Addressing above all Arab public opinion, it is plausible
that at least a part of the threatening statement of Rayan is
propaganda. Israeli intelligence experts have above all
recognised that in past weeks that Hamas has manned a military
structure which is is currently strengthening.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, illustrating three days
ago the prospective of a vast military operation in Gaza to stop
the launch of Qassam rockets, acknowledged that it would require
a large man-force. (ANSAmed)
2007-09-28 17:42