Hamas
(asked on 5th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the military capability of Hamas.
This question was answered on 10th November 2014
We assess Hamas to be a professional and capable military force. The nature and scale of Hamas’ military activity is significant and has resulted in indiscriminate civilian casualties within Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Terriktories. The Israeli Defence Minister has stated that around 80% (approximately 8000 rockets) of Hamas’s arsenal was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge.
We assess Hamas to be a professional and capable military force. The nature and scale of Hamas’ military activity is significant and has resulted in indiscriminate civilian casualties within Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Terriktories. The Israeli Defence Minister has stated that around 80% (approximately 8000 rockets) of Hamas’s arsenal was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge.