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The Foreign Ministry is concerned that the Syrian army’s deploying of chemical weapons against rebels could result in poison gas crossing over the border into northern Israel.
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WATCH: Israel Fears Syrian Poison Gas May Leak Into Country
Israeli postal workers distribute gas masks amid warnings of chemical weapons used in the Syrian civil war, August 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
