Israel concluded that a significant portion of the weapons used by Hamas in the war in the Gaza Strip came from the Israeli army itself. The publication reports that New York Times Western and Israeli officials are cited, as well as Israeli intelligence officials.
The article states that members of the Palestinian Hamas movement have been obtaining explosives from unexploded Israeli artillery for many years and also stealing Israeli weapons from warehouses.
“Intelligence has shown that Hamas is able to assemble large numbers of rockets and anti-tank weapons from thousands of shells that did not explode when Israel fired them into the Gaza Strip,” the newspaper wrote.
The authors of the article note that approximately 10 percent of munitions usually fail to explode, but in the case of Israel, this figure may be higher. Israel’s arsenal includes missiles from the Vietnam War that have long been discontinued in the United States. An Israeli intelligence official said the failure rate for some could be as high as 15 percent.
Before that in Ukraine sad The fact that weapons intended for Kiev were supplied to Israel.
It was previously reported that Israel. spent $1.5 billion for arms purchases.