JERUSALEM, Aug. 27 – Hamas has sent hundreds of its fighters abroad for military training, most of them to Iran, the Israeli Army`s deputy chief of staff says, and Israel has the names of more than 100 of them.
Israel is watching as Hamas, in control of Gaza, is building an army there on the model of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, said the deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky, in a wide-ranging interview conducted 10 days ago at his office in Tel Aviv. He said Hamas was constructing positions and fortifications, building tunnels for fighting and smuggling in explosives, antitank weapons and more sophisticated rockets through the Egyptian desert.
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Israel’s blundering in the Second Lebanon War is going to cost them dearly, as it seems every terrorist organization that wants the Jewish state wiped from the map sees Hizb’Allah’s performance in that war as the model they should follow.
