Hamas is threatening to use chemical weapons in future attacks against Israeli targets, claiming "slaughter will bring slaughter," Israel’s Channel Two reported Sunday night.
According to this report, Hamas issued an internal statement after conducting a strategic debate which generated the decision to use chemical weapons in addition to conventional bombs.
"When we reach that stage [using chemical weapons], the gates will be opened to develop suicide attacks with Allah's help," the report said, quoting from the statement issued by the movement Sunday.
The statement claimed that the aim is to further harm those hit by shrapnel in a bomb blast and "create a massacre." The movement maintained that while the idea is not new, attempts to use chemicals in bombs have so far met with failure, as the chemicals used are usually inexpensive and crude agents that lose their effectiveness in the heat created by a bomb blast.
Hamas leader, Dr. Abdel Aziz al Rantissi, however denied the Israeli reports and referred to them as "lies." (Albawaba.com)
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