In January, the Palestinian military group Hamas released a video claiming that Israel used trained dolphins to kill swimmers, presenting in evidence a harness supposedly taken from one such dolphin. In 2015 Hamas claimed the Israeli Defence Force was using spy dolphins, and the new story received much the same mocking response from the media. The official State of Israel account sarcastically Tweeted eight dolphin emojis. But could there be some truth in it?
A Wikipedia page devoted to “Israel-related animal conspiracy theories” includes a kestrel captured by Hezbollah, a vulture in Lebanon, shark attacks off Egypt, wild boars, rats and even
