The American website "Axios" said today that the Israeli army "found a USB key containing instructions for producing a cyanide dispersal device on the body of a Hamas activist who participated in the October 7 attack, according to Israeli officials and a copy from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Israeli secret.

According to Axios, it is unclear whether Hamas has any serious or operational plan to use crude chemical weapons, or whether the movement has attempted to produce them.

The American website reported that the “Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” department in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent, on Thursday, a secret telegram to Israeli embassies in dozens of capitals around the world, including Washington, under the title: “Hamas intends to use chemical weapons.”

Axios said it was unable to independently confirm the veracity of the Hamas file, but Israeli officials have previously said they “will not share information with allies if they do not believe it is true and reliable.”

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment on Axios' questions, while a Hamas spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said in the cable that Israeli intelligence traced the origin of the document to an Al-Qaeda guide issued in 2003.

“This conclusion indicates Hamas’s intention to use chemical weapons as part of its terrorist attack against civilians,” the cable claims.

The State Department sent the original file with a description in English to its embassies and in the telegram asked them to transmit it privately to the governments hosting the embassies and not to use it publicly in any way.

In the cable, the Israeli Foreign Ministry asked its diplomats to tell their counterparts that Hamas wants to “launch attacks in the same way that ISIS tried to do.”

Israel has privately and publicly shared documents it says it has found about dead Hamas attackers since October 7, including information that provided more insight into the group's planning.

According to the website, it is alleged that many of these documents, which Hamas classified as “top secret,” included operational plans to attack Israeli villages and military bases near the border with explicit orders to kill the largest possible number of people and take hostages to Gaza.

Source: Axios