Israel attack fails to stop rocket production at refugee camp
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, Middle East Newsline reported. 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.]
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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.
