The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – succeeded in recycling missiles dropped by Israeli warplanes in the current war by using them against the occupation army’s vehicles in the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said, on its Telegram channel, that it destroyed 5 Israeli tanks in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, noting that all of its members were killed and wounded, using two unexploded Israeli missiles, each weighing a ton, which were planted in the path of the advance of the vehicles, and detonated immediately upon their arrival. .
Just days before the war on Gaza completed its first month, human rights reports indicated that the explosives dropped on the Strip were equivalent to two nuclear bombs, while the government media office in Gaza said – about a week ago – that Israeli aircraft dropped more than 53 thousand tons of explosives on the Strip.
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The “Shabakat” program, in its episode on (12/24/2023), followed the tweeters’ comments on the Al-Qassam Brigades’ use of non-explosive occupation missiles against it, amid praise for the Palestinian resistance and the way it overcame the siege imposed on Gaza.
An account called Solo said in his comment on the “X” platform that “part of the missiles that the resistance (manufactures) are originally bombs and missiles that did not explode, but part of the resistance’s job is reverse engineering in general.”
Abdel Wahed praised the steadfastness of the Palestinian fighters, and said, “The Zionists’ missiles bounce back on them…they hit the resistance with them without exploding, and the resistance throws them back at them to get them killed by their own hands.”
Omar pointed out that the resistance has huge stocks of these missiles, adding, “God willing, we will turn the equation around on their heads. Thousands of high-explosive bombs will be returned to them.”
In turn, Abdullah preferred to recall what Al-Qassam did during the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, and added, “This happened within a matter of days, despite the siege and lack of capabilities.”
It is noteworthy that the process of recycling Israeli weapons is not new to Hamas; It had collected Israeli ammunition after Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip for use in manufacturing missiles, so that it could develop its armament process.
Also, the remnants of war are not the only source of the Qassams; About 3 years ago, the Times of Israel newspaper said that Hamas found ammunition from a British warship from World War I that sank off the coast of Gaza, and dismantled it to use explosives from the shells to arm the warheads of its missiles, but the ammunition was unusable.
In September 2020, the Al-Qassam Brigades launched a project called “Aim for the Way,” which aims to neutralize the dangers of large quantities of shells that fell on the Gaza Strip, but did not explode, and to recycle them and introduce them into the resistance’s weapons manufacturing system.
Reports indicate the presence of large quantities of iron, scrap, metal sheets and pipes resulting from the destruction of infrastructure from Israeli raids, which Hamas recycles for use in manufacturing its military capabilities. It also turns non-explosive materials into explosives.