Israel planning to flood Gaza tunnels with nerve gas
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Former Hamas chief, Khaled Meshaal claims Israel planning to flood Gaza tunnels with nerve gas
Former Hamas chief, Khaled Meshaal claims Israel planning to flood Gaza tunnels with nerve gas.
Former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has claimed that Israel is planning to flood Hamas tunnels with a type of nerve gas or chemical weapon.
Speaking to Egypt’s Sada El Balad TV channel on Thursday, Meshaal also claimed that the US had told Israel to delay its looming ground invasion and continue pummelling Gaza from the sky and that Washington had deployed soldiers from its elite Delta Force to help in securing the release of hostages.
“We have information from trusted sources that the [US’s] plan with Israel is to send special American/Israeli forces, administered by the US and executed either by Israel or combined [US and Israel] to… use nerve gases, aiming to paralyze the capabilities of Palestinian soldiers in the tunnels and trenches without killing him so they do not kill the hostages or captives held in these tunnels,” he said.
Gaza’s vast tunnel network provides Hamas fighters passage under populated urban areas and also serves as a place where Hamas leaders and their weapons are shielded from potential air attacks.
According to a 2014 report by Al Jazeera, there are an estimated 500 tunnels cutting across the besieged Gaza Strip.
Palestinian groups claim Israel will flood Hamas’s tunnels with a type of nerve gas or chemical weapon under the surveillance of US Delta Force commandos.
An Arab source familiar with Palestinian groups claimed that the plan “hinges on the element of surprise… using internationally forbidden gases, particularly nerve gas, and chemical weapons”.
Israel is not a signatory to the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention but the use of biological weapons has been illegal for nearly a century, since the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
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Inhaled or absorbed through the skin, most nerve gases can kill in anywhere between one to 10 minutes by crippling the respiratory centre of the central nervous system and paralyzing the muscles around the lungs.
Symptoms of exposure to the agent include nausea and violent headaches, blurred vision, drooling, muscle convulsions, respiratory arrest, and loss of consciousness.
Speaking on Thursday, Meshaal also acknowledged that a ground invasion was looming but said it would be unconventional, adding that both Israel and the US wanted to limit the number of casualties on their side.
“They (the Americans) say that they don’t want to repeat the Fallujah scenario which is land invasion and confrontation, but rather the Mosul scenario which is to bombard from above,” Meshaal said, referring to events following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where US forces faced fierce resistance from Iraqi groups during a ground offensive in the Battle of Fallujah.
“This is the first path, and it is dangerous, it means that [Israel] should not hurry into the land invasion, [they] should bomb, destroy, displace people as much as they like. For the first time, Israel is given this open time.”
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