Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades launches chemical weapon at Israel?

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed that they launched a chemical weapon at southern Israel.

The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.

“The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead” at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.

The al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade are the an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.