Hamas attacks Tel Aviv
Last night HAMAS fired two rockets to Tel Aviv. Wiki says that a rocket consists of a steel cylinder, containing a rectangular block of the propellant. A steel plate which forms and supports the nozzles is then spot-welded to the base of the cylinder. The warhead consists of a simple metal shell surrounding the explosives, and is triggered by a fuse constructed using a simple firearm cartridge, a spring and a nail. The rockets were intercepted in air, some fragments fell in Rishon LeZion, the boom was heard in my town too. The Hamas, in Gaza, announced that they are on the way to victory over Israel.
HAMAS launches more rockets than NASA, but still they accomplish nothing and cause only minimal damages. I have no idea what their plan is aside from being a pain in the ass from time to time.
ReplyDeleteThe idea is to keep the fight hot, never let it cool down.
ReplyDeleteI thought Gaza was under siege. Where are they getting propellent from? From the Egyptian border?
DeleteThe fight is hot so they can keep collecting Iranian money, you are saying?
Exactly. (1) Hamas is a political party, and to keep up its image of real Palestinian resistance as against the more pacific Fatah, it needs some drama now and then. (2) The resistance image attaches them enormous heroic prestige in Europe and leftist circles. I have seen them lecturing in Britain, they have status. (3) The Hamas lives from subsidies, and if forgotten, they are not different from other Middle East terror governments. (4) Israeli security services maintain a paid information networks, meaning that thousands receive income thanks to Israel's interest in their internal politics. Both sides are interested in maintaining a fake hostility.
DeleteThe rocket fuel is fertilizer, easily obtained and very cheap. The 8" iron pipes are from the sewage system. Once got the knack of how to build it, any technical school can manufacture hundreds.