Hamas Chemical Weapons Capability
November 2012 If Hamas supplied these rockets to the Syrian rebels, it would explain finding 330mm rocket parts designed for massive Fahr-5 missle launchers by Iran normally tightly controlled by Syrian army. Hamas was given technology for 330mm missle by Iran, but broke off relations.
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Britain’s Sunday Times, Israeli special forces arealready on the ground in Gaza seeking out rockets and weapons for targeting. The Times is also reporting that Hamas may place chemical weapons on its long-range missiles. “Hamas might go for a desperate attempt to launch rockets with chemical warheads if the worst came to the worst,” one unnamed source reported.
It has been reported that Hamas is hiding its rockets underground, particularly near civilian areas including mosques, hoping that Israel will not strike such targets out of concern for civilian life.
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- The Islamist Hamas organization is testing locally-made M75 missiles that can reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, according to military sources. The medium-to-long range ...
- TEHRAN — Iran has supplied Hamas in Gaza with the technology to “quickly” producelonger-range missiles on their own without needing direct shipments, said a ...
- Hamas recently test fired improved long-range missiles from a training base in what was once Gush Katif, PA media reported.the tests included the launching of two rockets with a range of dozens of kilometers. (that would be fahr-5)The rockets were launched toward the Mediterranean Sea off the Gazan coast from a Hamas training base which is located in areas vacated by Israel during the 2005 expulsion from Gush Katif.Hamas' rocket unit expressed satisfaction with the results of the test launches, Yisrael Hayom reported. The improved rockets were reportedly manufactured and assembled in Gaza using Iranian know-how.This is not the first time that Hamas has used what was once the thriving Israeli communities in Gush Katif to carry out attacks against in Israel. Hamas has fired many of its rockets at southern Israel from areas that were once Jewish communities. One of Hamas's training bases is located on what was once the synagogue of the Gaza Jewish community of Atzmona....A special report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center released this week shows that Iran, which has been supplying Hamas with weapons and rockets to use against Israel, is continuing to assist its terror proxy in Gaza and is expected to play a key role in rebuilding the weapons stockpile of the Gaza terror groups.
- Iran has supplied military assistance to Hamas in Gaza, including technology needed to build long-range Fajr-5 rockets used to target Tel Aviv, a military leader from ...Iran has supplied military assistance to Hamas in Gaza, including technology needed to build long-range Fajr-5 rockets used to target Tel Aviv, a military leader from the Islamic republic said."Gaza is under siege, so we cannot help them. The Fajr-5 missiles have not been shipped from Iran. Its technology has been transferred and (the missiles are) being produced quickly," the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted as saying by the semiofficial ISNA news agency on Wednesday.Israel has long accused Iran of supplying Hamas with its Fajr 5 missile, which has been used to target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem since the Israeli Defense Force's (IDF) ongoing military operation in Gaza was launched one week ago.Iranian lawmaker Ali Larijani said on Wednesday his country was “proud” to defend the people of Palestine and Hamas according to remarks published on the Islamic Republic’s parliamentary website.Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadhan Abdallah Shalah also told Al-Jazeera TV on Tuesday: “the weapons that are fighting the Israeli aggression and arrogance in Palestine come mainly from Iran, as the entire world knows. This is no secret. These are either Iranian weapons or weapons financed by Iran.”On Thursday two Fajr rockets struck on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, marking the first time the metropolitan area had been targeted with missiles since the Gulf War. Two more Fajr-5 missiles launched towards the city were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system on Saturday, while another pair of rockets exploded on the outskirts of Jerusalem.Two more errant rockets targeting Jerusalem landed in the West Bank on Tuesday. No casualties have been reported from any of the strikes.The Iranian produced Fajr-5 missile has an approximate range of 75 kilometers, which far exceeds the more mobile Palestinian-made Qassam rockets which came into use following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2001.The introduction of long-range missiles into Hamas’ arsenal came as a surprise to the Israeli military, who had initially viewed Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as out of play in the run up to Operation Pillar of Defense.The IDF was forced to revise infographics enumerating the Hamas rocket threat following the introduction of the Fajr rockets into the conflict. Israel’s Iron Dome system has mostly neutralized this Hamas’ newly acquired threat, however, with the periodic air raid sirens having more of a psychological impact than a material one.
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The Islamists are believed to have had some 100 Iranian Fajr 5 rockets and rocket launchers. The Fajr 5 is [330mm diameter] six-and-a-half to seven meters long and the warhead weighs over 175 kilos. It has a range of up to 75 kilometers, which puts Tel Aviv and Jerusalem within range.Several Chinese WS-1E rockets are believed to have been in its arsenals as well. They have a range of some 40 kilometers.Hamas is also known to have several hundred Grad rockets of various types. They can be equipped with different warheads and have a range of 20 to 40 kilometers. The Grads too are believed to have come from Iran.In addition to the imported weapons, Hamas has thousands of rockets produced in Gaza. The mortar rounds and primitive Qassam rockets made with fertilizer and explosives smuggled into Gaza have a range of just 10 to 15 kilometers. Iranian engineers are believed to have been advising the weapons builders for some time, and better models with bigger ranges are being built.The ample weapons stocks were thanks to one man: Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. His killing in an Israeli missile strike last Wednesday triggered the current conflict. Jabari knew how to exploit the changed political situation in the Middle East. After the Muslim Brotherhood, the mother organization of Hamas, came to power in the Arab Spring, the path was clear for the delivery of heavy weapons to Gaza.
Observers say the Fajr 5 has been smuggled to Gaza in the last 18 months, flown from Iran to Sudan and driven by trucks through the Egyptian desert to the border with Gaza. It seems inconceivable that this happened without the knowledge and tacit approval of Egyptian officials. The launchers are more than 10 meters long and the weapons system weighs 1.5 tons. Once they had arrived at the border, the rockets and launchers are believed to have been dismantled and brought to Gaza through tunnels. There are also reports that weapons from plundered arsenals of former Libyan dictator Muammar Ghadafi found their way into the Gaza strip.- The WeiShi (WS) family of the multiple launch rocket systems was developed by Sichuan Aerospace Industry Corporation (SCAIC, also known as Base 062) in Chengdu ...
- The WS-1E is the 122mm multiple rocket system developed by SCAIC as a successor to the PLA’s current Type 81 122mm rocket system. It is similar to the Type 90 122mm ...
- Palestinians Use Extended Range 122mm Rockets form China for Long-Range Attacks. ... WS-1E was developed for the Type 90 truck mounted multiple rocket launchers.
- The WS-1E rockets are compatible with the former 122mm rocket launch truck. WS-1EMLRS belongs to the conventional artillery tactical weapon.
- HAMAS Rockets. November 2012 witnessed a major escalation of HAMAS rocketcapabilities, as the Iranian Fajr-5 artillery rocket was employed for the first time.
Yossi Mekelman, a regional expert at London-based Chatham House, told Radio Free Europe on 17 November 2012 that the Fajr-5 missiles were smuggled from Iran to Gaza through Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. "The assumption is that they arrived through the Sinai Peninsula through the tunnels [to Gaza] because since the end of the Mubarak regime the border [between Egypt and the Gaza Strip] at Rafah is quite open," Mekelman says. "And if you remember, Israel two weeks ago attacked an arms factory in Sudan. So the alleged route goes from Iran to Sudan into the Sinai Peninsula, and the lawlessness in the Sinai enables the smuggling of more and more sophisticated weapons."
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