Thousands of rockets • What do terrorists have in the Gaza Strip?

Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip, have thousands of rockets, their maximum range comes up to Gush Dan, like a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip this afternoon at the Tel Aviv area and was intercepted by Iron Dome.

These rockets can be divided into two types:

A. Standard rockets smuggled into Gaza, land and sea routes. Source of most of the rocket is in Iran. To transfer them to the Gaza Strip was established by the Iranians a branched smuggling, cross-border, which it incorporated sea and land routes. Smuggling State Key system is Sudan, which are transported weapons from Iran and from which they smuggled into Gaza through smuggling networks. Significant smuggling attempt was when the Israeli Navy prevented the transfer of long-range rockets of type 302-M made in Syria from Iran to Gaza via Sudan on the ship KLOS-C Adar II, this year.
B. Self development and production of weapons: terrorist organizations are trying to develop self produced advanced rockets, ranges of up to 80 km. Technological knowledge used by terrorist organizations for self-production of medium-range rockets originated in Iran. During operation "Pillar of Defense" M75 rockets of Hamas's self-produced at the center of Israel. Rocket development effort stems from own production difficulties terrorist organizations to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip due to the counter-activities of the Israeli and Egyptian works intensively against the tunnels.

Lecture at the head of research Itai Baron at the Herzliya Conference is noted that the number of rockets by terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, has doubled since Operation "pillar of defense".

He noted that the terrorist organizations have hundreds of rockets for ranges of up to 80 km (up to Tel Aviv, Gush Dan and Jerusalem). Several thousand rockets for ranges of up to 40 km (Be'er Sheva, Ashdod, Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malachi.) And several thousand rockets for ranges of up to 20 km (Sderot and Ashkelon). This category can be added to mortars of various diameters whose range is 10-3 km.
Head of Research at the Center Intelligence and Terrorism Information Studies Meir Amit, Itai Baron noted at the Herzliya Conference, the number of rockets by terrorist organizations has doubled since Operation "pillar of defense".

Growth which indicated Gen. Baron is a quantitative and qualitative - i.e., increasing the number of rockets, whose range reaches up to the Dan region. Increase is part of a multi - year, which managed to Hamas and Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations to upgrade their arsenal, through their own production and smuggling, upgrade it, was well demonstrated in Operation "pillar of defense", and reflected the extent of fire, its intensity in improving quality and increasing their range rockets.

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