IDF spokesperson on rocket attacks: Iran had 'hands on involvement on the ground'

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) international spokesman Jonathan Conricus argued on Sunday that none of the recent violence in the Middle East “would have been possible without Iranian knowledge, funding, expertise and hands on involvement on the ground.”

Israel, late last week, announced that it had come to a cease-fire agreement with Hamas that put an end to 11 days of fighting in which Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilian targets, to which Israel responded with airstrikes.  "Iranian specialists, engineers and people who deal in rocketry and explosives have been educating and telling Hamas engineers how to produce rockets, how to manufacture their own weapons," Conricus argued on Sunday. "Had it not been for that very specific and detailed Iranian intervention, we wouldn’t have been in the situation now."  He also explained that the IDF focused on degrading "these capabilities, both in terms of the locations where they produce the weapons, the rockets and also in terms of the key personnel, the terrorists, the engineers that are behind all of these rockets that have been fired throughout Israel."