The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday 8 the discovery of Hamas' largest weapons factory (photo) since the start of the war against this terrorist group in October last year.
Located in Bureji, a densely populated civilian area in central Gaza, the factory lies underground, beneath the main road that connects the territory's north and south.
The soldiers found a strange building with a living room with sofas and a bathroom. In the next room they noticed the entrance to a staircase that led to a 20 meter deep tunnel that led to a storage room.
Inside the warehouse there was another tunnel that was much deeper and had an elevator. According to the IDF, the tunnel was connected to a large underground network used by Hamas to distribute rockets to all areas of the enclave.
From the picture you can see that the terrorists have developed significantly in their rocket production. In the beginning there were homemade projectiles made from PVC pipes, but today the Hamas weapons factory has hightech production lines for rockets.
Some of the components found were longrange missiles that could reach northern Israel. The Israelis are also locating equipment to improve the targeting of rockets and mortars.
According to the Israeli Defense Forces, this equipment was supplied by Iran. All that was previously known was that the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah had access to Iranian technology to produce longrange missiles..
“Hamas' stock of rockets and missiles is heavily based on Iranian technology, such as the Fajr 3 and 5, the M75 with a range of up to 75 kilometers and the R160 with a range of up to 120 kilometers,” it said it is the historian Rodolfo Queiroz Laterza, police chief and geopolitics and conflict analyst…
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