Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead

June 28, 2006 in Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, Syria

GAZA (Reuters) – A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.

The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.

“The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead” at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.

I have no Idea if the report is infact true, but if Palestinian Terrorists have launched a Chemical warhead at Israel, My guess is all hell is about to break loose. My guess is those planes buzzing Syrian President Assad’s house today was to send a very clear message. No one in Palestine has the capability to produce Chemical warheads, If they got them they got them from likely either Syria or Iran. Today’s Airial demonstration for Assad could very well have been a message that Israel knows where those weapons came from.

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