Israel destroys Gaza drone workshop: army

Israel destroys Gaza drone workshop: army
by Staff Writers
Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 16, 2012

The Israeli army destroyed a military drone production workshop in the Gaza Strip belonging to the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement on Friday, a military spokesman said.

"Our intelligence services discovered the Hamas drone programme, and all these devices have been destroyed," he told AFP.

Images from a video shot by Israeli aircraft showed a drone test flight and later its parts being dismantled into a large warehouse in Gaza City, situated between several residential buildings.

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