Hamas fighters were carrying instructions on how to make chemical weapons when they launched horrifying Kibbutz massacre, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog claims
Hamas terrorists carried instructions on how to make chemical weapons when they launched their horrific attack on Israeli border villages on October 7, Israel’s president has claimed.
Isaac Herzog said that Documents found on the bodies of dead fighters in Kibbutz Be’eri were “official Al Qaeda material” showing how to build a weapon using cyanide.
“We are dealing with ISIS, Al Qaeda and Hamas,” Herzog told Sky News. The documents are said to come from a well-known Al Qaeda manual from 2003.
“That’s how shocking the situation is when we look at the instructions given on how to operate and how to make a kind of non-professional chemical weapon with cyanide.”
The president’s office later said the documents were found on a USB stick on a dead Hamas fighter at the kibbutz – where about 20 percent of the 1,100 residents are believed to have been massacred or kidnapped.
Members of army rescue and ZAKA crews search for bodies after Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be’eri
Israeli warplanes continued to attack targets in Gaza throughout the weekend and into Monday morning
Gunmen from the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, take part in a military parade in Gaza City. Palestine
There is no evidence that Hamas terrorists had the components needed to make chemical weapons when they invaded Israel.
Mr. Herzog’s claims have not been independently verified, but the contents of the documents are said to contain credible ingredients for the weapons.
“Al Qaeda has spent a lot of time and effort developing a cyanide-based chemical weapon,” Hamish de Bretton Gordon, former head of the British Army’s Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Weapons Regiment, told Sky.
“Cyanide is a blood drug and AQ has developed a chemical weapon using these types of chemicals.”
During his interview, Mr. Herzog defended his country’s retaliatory bombing of Gaza, which many say has disproportionately affected civilians.
‘It’s not true. We have realistic objectives,” he said. “We say we want to wipe out Hamas’s military infrastructure. We have said it clearly. We are careful.
“It’s been two weeks and we haven’t operated on the ground because we’re being careful.
“I cry for the lives of the Palestinians, but first and foremost I cry for the lives of my nation.”
Isaac Herzog said documents found on bodies of dead fighters in Kibbutz Be’eri were ‘official Al Qaeda material’
Members of the Ezz-Al Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, parade on a truck carrying rockets on a street in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip
Israel has released a so-called ‘hostage manual’ that its leaders gave to Hamas fighters before their cross-border attack on October 7.
Hamas terrorists stormed kibbutzim and a desert festival in southern Israel on October 7, in what many Israelis have described as their September 11th.
The horrific attack, in which Hamas burned down homes and murdered entire families, killed 1,400 Israelis and took more than 220 hostage.
Israel last week released a so-called ‘hostage manual’ found on the bodies of dead Hamas terrorists.
The eight-page manuals contain instructions for the deadly attack, such as “kill the problematic” and “create chaos.”
In response to Hamas’ horrific attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on the terror group, launching sweeping airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in the days and weeks that followed.
More than 4,600 people have been killed and more than 14,000 injured in Gaza since October 7, according to the Hamas-run health authority in the area.
As Israel says it is stepping up its bombing of Gaza, the Israeli military has published what it says is evidence of Hamas rocket launch sites nestled among mosques, schools and daycare centers in the enclave.
A rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel by militants from the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia, the military wing of the Hamas movement
The IDF today shared satellite images it says show launch pits dug into the ground right next to civilian structures – something Israel says supports their claims that Hamas is using the Palestinian people as a human shield.
Israeli warplanes continued to attack targets in Gaza, as well as two airports in Syria, throughout the weekend and into Monday morning, according to local media.
Meanwhile, some 95 people are believed to have been killed in the occupied West Bank, where a mosque allegedly used by terrorists was bombed by Israeli forces, killing at least two people.