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Israel says hamas men trained in iran { February 2007 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070313/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictisrael_070313131220 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070313/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictisrael_070313131220 AFP Israel says hundreds of Hamas men trained in Iran JERUSALEM (AFP) - Hundreds of members of the radical Palestinian Hamas movement receive military training in Iran every year, the head of Israel's internal security service was quoted as saying on Tuesday. "Hundreds of Hamas men are sent for training in Iran, and not for short trainings of a week or a month, but for long sessions," MP Zvi Hendel told reporters after hearing Shin Beth chief Yuval Diskin brief parliament's influential foreign affairs and defence committee. According to Diskin, "the training in Iran is of high quality, and lasts several months," Hendel added. Diskin also said that "an unprecedented quantity of weapons was smuggled into the Gaza Strip during 2006, including 31 tonnes of explosives." The statements came amid growing calls in Israel to launch a new military operation in the Gaza Strip to counter the reported arming of militant groups and to stem the rocket fire into the Jewish state. Israel and the Palestinian factions have been largely observing a fragile Gaza truce agreed on November 26. On Monday, Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter also accused Iran of training militants from Hamas. Israel regards Iran as its chief enemy, alarmed by repeated calls from hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe the Jewish state off the map.

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