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October 16, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/775101.html

Hamas Readying for War

[Ha'aretz] Amos Harel - Recently, Hamas took possession of a shipment of dozens of Russian Concourse antitank missiles. These relatively precise missiles have a range of 4.5 kilometers, similar to those used by Hizballah during the war. IDF officers believe that Hamas will try to smuggle in hundreds more. In the IDF's assaults in Gaza since the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit over three months ago, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed, many of them militants. One IDF soldier has died. The next stage of IDF operations is expected to include an expanded offensive focused on impeding weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza via Rafah.

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