By Luke Baker
JERUSALEM
(Reuters) - The Israeli army has released what it says is a page from a
seized Hamas training manual that would appear to support its case that
Palestinian militants deliberately use the cover of residential areas
for combat operations.
The Israeli army said the training manual was found in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun at the end of July, when troops were operating inside the enclave. The full manual is 102 pages long, the army said, but it released just one page of it.
That page appears to set out guidelines on how to hide weapons and ammunition in civilian areas, how to transport them into buildings and how to conceal or camouflage explosives.
It is marked at
the bottom with "Izz-el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Training and Guidance
Branch, Engineering Corps". The al-Qassam Brigades are the military wing
of Hamas, the Islamist group that has controlled Gaza since 2007.
Unlike other Hamas documents, the page bears no Hamas logo.
"The process of hiding ammunition inside buildings is intended for
ambushes in residential areas and to move the campaign from open areas
into built up and closed areas," reads the document, written in Arabic.
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