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Qassam rocket
Sign in to savetype of rocket used by the military wing of Hamas against Israel
Key facts
- Used by
- Palestinian militants
- Wars
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Designer
- Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
- Manufacturer
- Palestinian militants
- Produced
- 2001–current
- Warhead
- Explosive material with metal bearing balls; standard explosive material
- Propellant
- Solid fuel ( sugar and potassium nitrate mix )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Since the rocket was first manufactured in 2001 by Tito Masoud and Nidal Farhat, three models of the Qassam rocket have been produced and used. More generally, all types of Palestinian rockets fired into southern Israel, for example the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Al Quds rockets, are called Qassams by the Israeli media, and often by foreign media.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qassam rocket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.