[Ynet] Organization's TV channel airs report documenting continued manufacture of long-range rockets; Production is 'a message we give to our allies and enemies," Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, front man says.
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Al-Aqsa TV, the official Hamas-run television channel aired a report on Wednesday allegedly documenting operatives of Hamas' Military Wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, continuing to produce rockets of the kind that were fired towards the Tel Aviv area, the Shfela and Dimona. The report included footage of the rocket assembly process.
In an effort to show that the footage was taken during recent days, a television screen is shown in the background of the broadcast, displaying an al-Jazeera report about terror tunnels that was broadcast last week.
Later on, captions with the date 'August 7' appear, along with the sentence "despite the aggression, the production process continues from the factory straight to the battlefield," Israeli media reported.
Local media further reported that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, front man Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
stated in response to the broadcast that "the continuation of the production of rockets during the fighting is a message we give to our allies and enemies." 
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