Hamas seizes Israeli spy dolphin off Gaza

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement announced on Monday that the movement's naval unit captured "an Israeli military dolphin that was equipped (with weapons) to attack the fighters of the resistance (Hamas)."

A video released by Al-Qassam Brigades showed a device bearing weapons that had been installed on the back of the captured dolphin.

The video also went over the activities of Hamas operational missions, including extracting a large number of equipment aboard a British ship that sank off the coast of Gaza.

It is not the first time that Israel has been accused of using animals - and birds - for spying purposes.

In 2010 Israel dismissed Egyptian claims that a series of shark attacks in the Red Sea could have been the result of a Mossad plot.
 

A few weeks later a vulture found in Saudi Arabia with a GPS transmitter was accused of being an unwitting Mossad operative.
 

And in 2012, villagers in Turkey feared a small migratory bird found dead with a ring on its leg had been an Israeli spy. Their fear proved unfounded