Hamas Draws on Arms Training in Iran, Class Notes Reveal
- Makeshift weapons may help Hamas hold out in northern Gaza
- Notes show drone, rocket plans, intelligence officers say
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Besieged and degraded after more than a year of war, pockets of Hamas fighters in northern Gaza have been dogging the Israeli army with what are often makeshift munitions. That’s precisely what their sponsors in Tehran intended.
Fourteen pages of notes, interspersed with sketches of drone avionics and rocket nose-cones, provide a glimpse of what intelligence officers say has been secret training within Iran for Hamas members tasked with creating a homegrown arsenal.