(A7) IDF soldiers discovered instructions for making chemical weapons on the body of one of the Hamas terrorists who took part in the October 7 massacre, journalist Barak Ravid reported.

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In an article on Axios, Ravid wrote that “two Israeli officials and a copy of a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable obtained by Axios,” the IDF “found a USB key with instructions for the production of a ‘cyanide dispersion device, on the body of a Hamas operative who participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.”

At the same time, the site noted that, “It is not clear from the file whether Hamas had any serious or operational plan for using makeshift chemical weapons or whether the group had attempted to produce them.””The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation department sent a classified cable to Israeli embassies in dozens of capitals worldwide, including Washington, on Thursday under the headline: ‘Hamas intention of using chemical weapons.'”

In the cable, the Ministry stressed, “This finding points to an intention by Hamas to use chemical weapons as part of its terror attack against civilians.”

Axios noted that the Foreign Ministry declined comment, and a Hamas spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Axios Noted:

Israeli intelligence traced the origin of the document to a 2003 Al-Qaeda manual, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in the cable.

• “This finding points to an intention by Hamas to use chemical weapons as part of its terror attack against civilians,” the cable alleges.
• The Israeli Foreign Ministry sent the original file with an English description to its embassies and in the cable asked them to privately transfer it to the embassies’ host governments and not use it publicly in any way.