Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true. Select from options at the end:

The number of Gulf War veterans who suffer from Gulf War illness is difficult to grasp. Robinson and other advocates say they believe that many of the 330,000 Gulf War veterans who have sought medical treatment from the VA since the war, and 179,000 who are collecting some level of disability benefits, are suffering from one or more of the symptoms.

Hypothesis: Many US soldiers developed Gulf War illness after the Gulf War.
Choose from: [I] yes [II] no
The answer is
[I]