TEL AVIV – Speaking during exclusive WND interviews today, leaders of Hamas
and an allied terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip claimed they have
“surprises” in store for Israel as the Jewish state continues its aerial
bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza.
The threats come as information from Israeli defense officials indicates
Gaza-based terrorists have long-range rockets capable of reaching just outside
Tel Aviv if launched from the northern Gaza Strip.
“This war is a war for elections and therefore we promise to send them
(Israelis) surprises,” stated Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important
operational members of Hamas’ so-called military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam
Martyrs Brigades.
Abu Abdullah claimed to WND that if Israeli ground troops entered Gaza, his
terror group is ready to engage.
“This will be the day of al-Hasher – the day where believers and
nonbelievers will be fighting face to face, and we will get rid of them and Allah will
win for the Muslims and the believers,” he said.
Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and leader of the Hamas-allied Popular
Resistance Committees terror group in Gaza, also claimed his organization has
“surprises” in store for Israel.
“We will keep fighting the Zionists until Israel will evacuate Ashdod and
Ashkelon and Yavneh,” he added, referring to several Israeli towns.
Israel yesterday took out a Popular Resistance Committees target, killing
10 of Abdel-Al’s commanders. Also yesterday, five of Abu Abullah’s direct
cousins from Hamas were eliminated during air raids.
Sources inside Hamas and the Committees hinted to WND the “surprises” they
have in store for Israel include the ability to hit Tel Aviv with rockets from
Gaza, a claim that may be grounded in some truth.
Earlier today, a Grad-style rocket reached the vicinity of the Bedouin town
of Rahat, the furthest point eastward a Palestinian projectile has
managed to reach.
More telling is a Grad rocket fired on Sunday that landed near Gan Yavne in
south Israel, an area that is just a 15 minute highway ride from Tel Aviv.
The Israel Defense Forces said the rocket was launched from
northern Gaza, the furthest point from which to reach deepest inside Israel.
WND, though, obtained specific information indicating that rocket actually was fired from just outside the Egyptian embassy in central Gaza, meaning if
the same rocket had been launched from northern Gaza it could technically have
reached outside Bat Yam, a satellite town of Tel Aviv.
Avital Lebovich, a spokeswoman for the IDF, did not deny Palestinians may be
capable of firing at Tel Aviv.
“Hamas can have variety of capabilities,” she told WND when asked whether
Gaza rockets can strike Tel Aviv.
