The Israeli military says it found a USB key with instructions to make a “cyanide dispersion device” on the body of a Hamas jihadist who took part in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, according to reports.
A classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable obtained by Axios was allegedly sent to Israeli embassies in dozens of capitals worldwide, including Washington, on Thursday under the headline: “Hamas intention of using chemical weapons.”
The USB allegedly contained a document to a 2003 Al-Qaeda manual but did not clarify whether Hamas had any serious intention to produce or deploy chemical weapons.
“This finding points to an intention by Hamas to use chemical weapons as part of its terror attack against civilians,” the cable claims.
But Axios on Saturday noted the authenticity of the Hamas file could not be verified.
From Axios:
It is not clear from the file whether Hamas had any serious or operational plan for using makeshift chemical weapons or whether the group had attempted to produce them.
The authenticity of the Hamas file could not be independently confirmed by Axios, but Israeli officials have previously said they wouldn’t share information with allies if they didn’t think it was authentic and reliable.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry sent the original file with an English description to its embassies and in the cable asked them to privately transfer it to the embassies’ host governments and not use it publicly in any way.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry in the cable instructed its diplomats to tell their counterparts that Hamas wants “to conduct attacks in a similar way that ISIS tried to do.”
Given the disastrous Iraq War was launched under the false pretense of “weapons of mass destruction”, it’s critical that reports like this be independently verified by third parties before politicians attempt to make foreign policy decisions that could further enmesh America into another forever war.
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