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Energy minister: Hamas apparently tried to fire torpedo at offshore gas platform

18 May 2021, 2:03 pm Edit

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz tells Army Radio that Hamas appears to have tried to launch a torpedo at Israel’s Tamar natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the Gaza-ruling terror group’s efforts to strike the offshore rigs.

Gas rigs in the Tamar field, off the coast of Israel, in June 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

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