Killer Zionist dolphins? Hamas claims they exist
Hamas claimed that its naval commandos were attacked by a dolphin operative of the Israeli forces, equipped with specialized combat gear.
Dolphins [Illustrative] (photo credit: INGIMAGE)
The exact nature and function of the aquatic attacker's device were not revealed, but Al-Quds
claimed it had sources regarding another combat cetacean incident in
August 2015 that was equipped with a remote control, a camera and a
weapon that could fire harpoon-like projectiles.
The Al-Quds sources claimed that Hamas had succeeded in capturing the 2015 Israeli dolphin operative,
but did not report what became of the military mereswine, which may
still be in captivity. According to BBC, The newspaper claimed that the
marine mammal was "stripped of its will" and turned into "a murderer" by
Israeli forces.
An Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin spotted in Eilat (credit: OMRI OMSI / ISRAEL NATURE AND PARKS AUTHORITY)
Past reports of killer Israeli dolphins and other militarized
marine animals have become memetic on social media –as demonstrated by
the tagline of the popular satirical Mossad Twitter account: "We put
lasers on aquatic animals and other satirical shenanigans."
Hamas's
newest claim of Israel dolphin forces was widely met with ridicule
online. Some Twitter users questioned if the dolphin had laser weapons
attached, in reference to villians in the comedy film Austin Powers who demand to have sharks with lasers attached to their heads.
Israel
has in the past been accused of using other weaponized animals for
militarized purposes. In 2010, Egypt's South Sinai Gov. Mohamed Abdel
Fadil Shousha suggested that deadly shark attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh were part of a Mossad operation to harm Egyptian tourism. In 2011, Saudi Arabian authorities held a vulture
in detention under suspicion that it was spying for Israel after a
misunderstanding about the purpose of the tracking device it was
carrying. Turkish authorities also detained a suspected Israeli spy bird in 2013, but released it after X-rays showed that it was not embedded with surveillance equipment.
Iran was also alleged by the Mirror tabloid to have been using killer dolphins equipped with harpoons strapped to their heads.
Marine
animals have a long history of military use, though usually for
surveillance and equipment retrieval, not aquatic assassinations as
Hamas claimed it was trying to evade.
Russia has been reported by the Guardian as suspected of using beluga whales for possible surveillance purposes. According to National Geographic,
the US Navy has had a marine animals program since the '60s. PBS
reported that bottle nose dolphins are used to detect sea mines and
swimmers entering territorial waters, and California sea lions are used
to aid in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) practice. There have been
reports of a Vietnam War-era "swimmer nullification program" used to tag
swimmers, but the US Navy denies that dolphins have ever been used to
attack people.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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