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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
Hamas fires those weak rockets to make themselves feel good by being "tough". I don't believe for a second that their intention is to provoke Israel into bombing Gaza, their own families live there and are sometimes the target for retaliation.
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Weak rockets?
The only rockets that I would classify as weak are the Qassam 1 and 2 series of Rockets which carry a half kg to a 5 kg high explosive warhead that they pack with fragments for maximum casualties.
The Quassam 3 rocket carries a 15 kg high explosive warhead which would bring down a fairly good sized house.
Hammas has also bought in the Grad rocket with a 18 kg high explosive warhead and a range of 20 kms and is fired from a MLRS type of system which can fire a dozen rockets at a high tempo.
They have the WS-1 a modern artillery rocket made in China with a 45 km range and a 22 kg warhead again high explosive and packed with basically ball bearings.
in the last two years Hamas has built the Fadjr-5 rocket which is a 75 km range missile with a 90 kg high explosive warhead which can bring down buildings.
And this year they started bringing in M302 missiles which only exist in Syria and China's inventory, these are long range missiles with a 150km range and a 150 kg war head.
I mean I know you have to make your case but Hamas isn't firing party poppers here, or their rickity home made rockets, these are actual battlefield anti personal rockets and the new ones have heavy warheads and have good long and medium range capabilities.