Bombas flotantes

Están llegando a las playas de Askelón (Israel) unos contenedores llenos de explosivos... Como el mensaje encerrado en una botella, pero en su variante palestina... Se cree que son lanzados al mar por pescadores árabes conocedores de las corrientes marinas. Lo que no se sabe es si van destinados a Israel (a dañar la flota anclada en el puerto de Askelón, a hacer estallar la plataforma petrolífera que Israel tiene instalada frente a estas costas...); o bien, la otra teoría, que los contenedores de explosivos fueran destinados a armar a los terroristas de Gaza y hubieran errado el destino. Gaza se encuentra a apenas 25 kilómetros de las playas donde se han encontrado varados los cócteles explosivos.

The containers were designed to float on the waves and their contents to be detonated by remote control. Each contained tens of kilos of bomb materials.
Senior intelligence and naval officers familiar with the arena are investigating the incident to discover if the explosives were destined for a fresh round of sophisticated attacks on Israeli targets. If so, Palestinian fishermen would be able to judge the force and direction of Mediterranean currents for carrying them to strategic targets, such as the Israel offshore oil rig opposite Ashkelon, the power station on its shore, the oil depot, Israel's second largest port at Ashdod and the Israeli Navy facility based there. Israel naval vessels maintaining the sea blockade on Gaza could be another target.

Other sources recall that Iran has been using the floating barrels dropped by emrchant vessels at prearranged locations to deliver explosives to their Palestinian surrogates in Gaza, where they are picked up by waiting fishermen familiar with the sea currents. Two of these containers may have washed up on Ashkelon and Ashdod beaches as a result of a misjudgment.

Debka