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Tehran admits sending ‘military aid’ to Hamas – Hamas leader decries gory killing of alleged spies TEHRAN: Iran has sent military aid to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza that has been locked in a week-long war with Israel, parliament speaker Ali Larijani said yesterday. “We are proud to defend the people of Palestine and Hamas … and that our assistance to them has been both financial and military,” he said without elaborating, in remarks reported by parliament’s website, ICANA.ir. Iran has never made a secret of its support for Israel’s foes Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip but generally eschews mention of sending military aid. The Jewish state has accused Iran of supplying Hamas with its Fajr 5 missile, used to target Tel Aviv since an Israeli offensive on Gaza was launched on November 14. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief General Mohammad Ali Jafari said yesterday that Tehran was only responsible for having shared the missile’s “technology.” Jafari said: “Iran provides technical assistance to all Muslims who fight against world arrogance,” a term used by Iranian officials to describe the West and Israel, the ISNA news agency reported. The Fajr 5 missiles launched at Tel Aviv “have not been delivered from Iran, but their technology has,” Jafari said, adding that the missiles were being “rapidly produced” in Gaza. In another development, Hamas’s deputy leader has condemned the “unlawful” killing of six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who were suspected of giving information to Israel. Moussa Abu Marzouk, in comments posted on his Facebook page yesterday, urged the Islamist Hamas administration ruling Gaza to ensure that no one takes the law into their own hands. “Punishing collaborators and especially those involved in the killing of our leaders must only be carried out in accordance with the law and through the legal procedures,” Abu Marzouk said. Citing an unidentified security source, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa radio station said the six men were shot dead on Tuesday after being “caught red-handed” working for Israel, which has battered Gaza with air strikes for the past eight days in an offensive it says is meant to stop rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave. “They possessed hitech equipment and filming equipment to take footage of positions,” Al-Aqsa radio station said. Gunmen chained the body of one of the alleged collaborators to a motorcycle and dragged it throughout the main streets of Gaza City. At least one body was beaten, kicked and trampled. Troubled by graphic photographs and footage of the incident, Abu Marzouk added: “The way those collaborators were killed and the images after their death were completely unacceptable.” “Those who did it should be punished and it must not be repeated,” said the Hamas official, who is currently in Cairo.—Agencies [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
