SubscribePalistinians Turn Sewage Pipes Into Rockets
From a three week old article in the Jerusalem Post:
Israeli security services have prevented tons of metal pipes from being transferred to terror groups in Gaza.
Israeli metal used for Kassam rockets
By YAAKOV KATZ
Mar. 4, 2007
It took seven years, but the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has finally put a stop to one of the more ironic aspects on Israel’s war on terror: Kassam rockets made of Israeli metal.
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who worked as a metal merchant at the Karni crossing between Israel and the Strip was arrested by the Shin Bet last month for allegedly selling pipes he bought in Israel to terrorist groups that used them to manufacture Kassams, it was released for publication on Sunday.
On February 9, the Shin Bet arrested Amar Azk, 37. During his interrogation, he confessed selling the pipes to Hamas and other terrorist organizations that manufactured Kassam rockets, fired almost daily at Israel. The Shin Bet said Azk’s activities began with the start of the second intifada in 2000 and were only brought to a halt by his arrest. The agency could not say how much metal Azk traded, except that it was “significant.”
The pipes that were sold to Zak were intended for the construction of a sewage system in Gaza. The Shin Bet has been unable to determine the amount of metal that actually made its way to the terror organizations, and how much went to the sewage project.
The Shin Bet arrested Azk after it received numerous reports last year that hollow pipes made in Israel were being used to manufacture Kassam rockets and shoulder-launched missiles.
The Shin Bet found that most of the raw materials used to manufacture Kassams came from Israel. The Israeli companies, the security service said, were used by the terrorist groups without their knowledge. As such, the Shin Bet refused to divulge the names of the firms.
In November 2006, OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant issued an order forbidding the sale of hollow pipes of certain sizes to the Gaza Strip.
In 2006, 1,700 rockets were fired from Gaza.
A Palestinian uses a raft as he paddles through sewer waters in the Bedouin village of Um Al-Nasr following the collapse of a sewer system in the northern Gaza Strip. At least five Palestinians, including two toddlers, drowned in a “sewage tsunami” on Tuesday when a water treatment reservoir burst, flooding a village in the northern Gaza Strip.
You reap what you sow.
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March 31st, 2007 at 12:49 am
No wonder the raw sewage overflowed. They were using the pipes to make rocket launchers. Every time the Palis launch a missle the Israelis need to destroy the village it came from.
March 31st, 2007 at 3:18 am
Looks like another ‘poop de grace’ for the Pali’s
March 31st, 2007 at 3:36 pm
No doubt the Palis were using pipe bought from the Israelis for rocket launchers, but it isn’t sewer pipe. Sewer pipe is not and has never been made of steel, not here or anywhere else.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:08 pm
“No doubt the Palis were using pipe bought from the Israelis for rocket launchers, but it isn’t sewer pipe. Sewer pipe is not and has never been made of steel, not here or anywhere else.”
A) I don’t think the claim is that these were flume-type drainage pipes. The diameters would have been too large. But that these pipes were intended to go into the construction of a sewage facility.
B) Many of the cities of the world still have sewer pipes (i.e., large diameter flume-type drainage pipes) that are made of iron or other metals:
Sewer History: Photos and Graphics
http://www.sewerhistory.org/gr.....-iron1.htm
March 31st, 2007 at 5:54 pm
The Palestinians, and most of the muslim world, are destroying themselves over their irrational hatred of non-muslims. And they prove themselves unable to run even a sanitary sewer system.
Didn’t Israel offer to advance humanitarian aid towards the Palestinian Authority following the sewage facility collapse? And the PA refused to accept Israel’s help?
March 31st, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Pali’s have been crapping in their nests for years, What is new about this latest incident?
March 31st, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Actually I was referring to the pipe in the picture from the Jerusalem Post. It could very well be used as a rocket launcher tube, but it is not sewer pipe.
The picture of Um Al-Nasr brings back fold memories of crossing “shit-river” in Olongapo, RP on our way to many cold San Miguels and many warm young ladies.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:15 am
Pipe used in sewers in the US is regulated as to the type of material, strength, size, etc.etc… In the Middle East, there is no regulation. When I was in Iraq, working in a mis-named Sewage Treatment Plant, it was obvious there are no regulators. The picture showing the Sewage Plant says it all: containment walls made from cement blocks (not strong enough for holding fluid), it is too small for the number of people served, it definitely has toooo much grease(clogs up pumps, pipes, weirs); and based on hands on experience, is not a treatment plant but a holding pond for sewage. Whatever water leaves this plant is very dangerous to life; except for viruses and bacteria.