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Oct 7, 2023 · The first rocket to be developed by Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, was on October 26, 2001. The rocket, often referred to as ‘fireworks’, was a primitive attempt at developing an arsenal that could repel frequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Its reach did not exceed 2 to 3 kilometers, with a small warhead.
The Yasin ( Arabic: ياسين ), also known as Yassin, [2] or Al-Yassin, [3] is an anti-tank weapon derived from the RPG-7 produced by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and first deployed in 2004. [4] It was named after Hamas' spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yasin, killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on March ...
Nov 6, 2023 · Hamas armed wing says it fired 16 rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon. The Lebanon branch of the Qassam Brigades said the barrage was in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Gaza.
May 25, 2021 · The mainstay of Hamas’ inventory is the Qassam series of rockets, often fashioned out of metal traffic-post tubes at a cost of $300 to $800. These possess limited range and small warheads, and ...
Jan 28, 2024 · The discovery, Qassam boasted, allowed it to make hundreds of new rockets. Early in the current war, a Qassam video showed militants assembling Yassin 105 rockets in a sunless manufacturing facility.
Oct 9, 2023 · Al-Qassam Brigades revealed for the first time that it has brought into service a locally manufactured “Mutabar 1” an air defence system that it used to conf...
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Nov 9, 2023 · A recurring narrative/allegation in debates about the current Hamas/Israel conflict is that Hamas has dug up EU steel pipes and turned them into Qassam rockets.The main sources for this appear to be this Telegraph article: EU funded water pipelines despite Hamas boast it could turn them into rockets which explicitly mentions that
