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The Qassam rocket ( Arabic: صاروخ القسام Ṣārūkh al-Qassām; also Kassam) is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. These rockets cannot be fired to target specific military objectives in or near civilian areas, and are "indiscriminate when used ...
- Palestinian militants
- Gaza–Israel conflict
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...
Mar 11, 2008 · Qassams are manufactured primarily in Gaza, but Israel has uncovered a few makeshift rocket workshops in the West Bank as well. Although most of the raw materials used to manufacture the rockets come from basic civilian industries, other materials are imported or stolen from inside Israel or smuggled in through tunnels from Egypt.
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Oct 9, 2023 · Hamas’ main armament has been the Qassam rocket, a cheap garage-built weapon assembled from industrial piping, home-made rocket fuel of sugar and potassium nitrate fertilizer, and...
Jan 17, 2024 · V-2 rockets and Scud missiles also have better guidance systems than Qassam rockets, as they were designed to incorporate a gyroscope guidance system. The ICTY, in the Martić judgment , made a weapon-specific determination in which it regarded the self-propelled M-87 Orkan as “an indiscriminate weapon.”
Feb 3, 2024 · Abu Obaida, the elusive spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said in early January in a speech broadcast on Al Jazeera that all weapons used in combat are manufactured in Gaza, from bullets...
Oct 21, 2023 · Hamas possesses around 10,000 short-range rockets with a range of up to 20 kilometers, about 2.6% of Israel’s population. Most of these rockets are Qassam rockets, which are manufactured in small, underground facilities in the densely populated northern part of the Gaza Strip.
