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Israel attack fails to stop rocket production at refugee camp

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Free Headline Alerts

GAZA CITY — Despite a major Israeli operation last month, the work of producing rockets and missiles goes on at a Palestinian refugee camp.

Palestinian sources said the Hamas regime as well as aligned militias have maintained missile and explosives production at the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The sources said production in the town of Jabalya and adjacent refugee camp was resumed after a major Israeli operation that destroyed scores of suspected weapons facilities in March 2008.

"Some production has been affected," a source said. "But the Israelis missed out on the majority of weapons workshops." [On Wednesday, three Israeli soldiers were killed in a battle with Palestinian fighters along the border of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military spokesman said troops entered the Gaza Strip to stop a squad of suspected infiltrators.]

On April 13, a Palestinian killed and two others were seriously injured in Jabalya. The home of Noureddin Ahmed Al Mutawaq was damaged by a series of explosions followed a fire.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights determined that the explosions were the result of bomb production. The center based its findings on witnesses.

In 2007, Hamas was said to have significantly increased production of the Kassam-class missile. The sources said the Islamic regime was capable of manufacturing at least 100 short-range Kassam missiles at workshops in Jabalya, Bureij and other refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.

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