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Shabak Chief: Attacks On Gaza Would Be Maintained
Shabak Chief: Attacks On Gaza Would Be Maintained
30/05/2012
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Chief of the general Israeli intelligence, the Shabak, Yoram Cohen has affirmed the importance of maintaining attacks on the Gaza Strip.
He told the parliamentary security and foreign affairs committee on Wednesday that such attacks would serve Israel’s security.
Cohen claimed that in the absence of such attacks Israel would face large scale threats in the near future.
Shabak has pinpointed hundreds of qualitative targets in Gaza that would be hit when the orders are given, Cohen said.
The Shabak chief alleged that Hamas has 15,000 fighters while Islamic Jihad has recruited 5,000.
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