Ambassador Erdan meets AP president, says Hamas had Iron Dome jammer in AP building

• Published date: 08 June 2021
• Date: 08 June 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Ambassador Erdan reiterated that the multistory building housing the AP in Gaza, which was destroyed last month in an airstrike, also housed the facilities of Hamas' military intelligence, its R&D department and a tech unit.

"The unit was developing an electronic jamming system to be used against the Iron Dome defense system," said Ambassador Erdan, officially informing for the first time why Hamas' operation in that building posed such an imminent threat to Israeli civilians and was prioritized by the IDF.

Ambassador Erdan added that "AP is one of the most important news agencies in the world and Israel doesn't think that AP employees were aware it was being cynically used in this way by Hamas for a secret unit."

The ambassador went on to assure the news agency that "Israel did everything it could to make sure that no employees or civilians were hurt...