Report: Hezbollah played key role in building up Gaza rocket arsenal

by JewishNewsOne

The recent conflict between Israel and Gaza has shown the extent of the Hamas controlled territory's rocket arsenal after some 1300 missiles were fired at Israel. A report published in the Lebanese media has surfaced which alleges that deceased Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh was the architect of the Gaza weapons smuggling network.
Published on the "Now Lebanon" news website the report claims that Mughniyeh personally travelled to the Gaza strip to oversee the development of the covert subterranean network designed specifically for importing arms to use against Israel. He was assassinated in 2008 by car bomb, and the report alleges that his role in transferring weapons to the Palestinians was the reason he was targeted.
The Shia militant group Hezbollah is classified by the US and many in the West as a terrorist organization and they, along with Hamas, are both supported by Iran and share the view that Israel does not have the right to exist.
The leader of Iran's revolutionary guard, General Mohammed Ali Jafari recently admitted that Iran has been supplying Hamas with the technological knowledge needed to build Fajr-5 rockets however he said they have not shipped any weapons to the Palestinian territory.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius recently stated that Iran bore "heavy responsibility" for the fighting in Gaza, and called on Tehran to stop arming Hamas and Hezbollah militants. However Iran has said that it will continue to support Palestinian militants and has admonished other Arab states for failing to arm Gaza fighters.