SANA'A November 11. 2023 (Saba)- For the 34th day in a row since the start of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades continue to confront the forces of the Zionist enemy in several areas of the Gaza Strip, even burying this arrogant enemy in the dirt, and inflicting on it heavy losses in equipment.
From the first moment the "Al-Aqsa Flood" began at dawn on October 7th, the Brigades were able to confidently and competently kill hundreds of Zionist soldiers and capture about 200 others.
Al-Qassam missiles destroyed “Ben Gurion Airport”, “Tel Aviv”, “Ashkelon”, “Ashdod”, “Haifa”, “Eilat”, the concentration camps... and other occupied cities, with large missile bursts.
Even today, according to the confessions of the Zionist enemy itself, this heroic battle resulted in the death of more than 1,600 Zionists, the capture of more than 200 Zionists, and the number of Zionist wounded rising to more than 7,262 injured.
The enemy also admitted that 35 officers and soldiers were killed and dozens of vehicles were destroyed, as part of its ground incursions Just.
According to what was announced by Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman, Abu Ubaida, in a speech last night, the brigades have monitored the destruction of 136 enemy army vehicles since the beginning of the ground fighting, and that elite Al-Qassam and resistance fighters are conducting maneuvering operations behind enemy lines and directing specific strikes at them.
In a small area that constitutes approximately 1.33 percent of the area of Palestine, which is the area of the resistance Gaza Strip, the heroic Qassam Brigades resistors were able to break the power of the arrogant Zionist enemy.
Who are Qassam Brigades?
The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades is the jihadist military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas.
The Brigades were first established in 1986 AD, before the announcement of the actual launch of the movement in the name of the Hamas Movement. The work continued under different titles until 1992 AD, when the name “Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades” was announced in the first statement issued in the name of the Brigades on 1/1- 1992 AD.
Al-Qassam Brigades aim to liberate all of Palestine from the Zionist occupation that has been forcefully usurping it since 1948 AD, and to gain the rights of the Palestinian people that were robbed by the Zionist enemy.
Al-Qassam Brigades is part of a movement with a national liberation project, working with all its energy to mobilize and lead the Palestinian people and mobilize their resources and powers, and its capabilities and incitement, mobilization of the Arab and Islamic nations to liberate Palestine.
Al-Qassam Brigades operate only within the borders of historic Palestine, which extend from the town of Ras Naqoura in the north to the town of Umm al-Rashrash in the south, and from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
The Al-Qassam Brigades consider jihad and resistance to be the most effective means of regaining rights and liberating the land (even if it takes a long time), and therefore they resist the occupying Zionist enemy with all the legitimate means of resistance they can provide.
The "Al-Qassam Brigades" is one of the most prominent resistance factions in Palestine, and its name is attributed to Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a Syrian scholar and mujahid who was martyred at the hands of British forces in Ya'bad near Jenin in 1935 AD.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, currently led by Muhammad al-Deif and his deputy Marwan Issa, are the largest and best-equipped group inside Gaza today.
Development of capabilities of Qassam Brigades:
Al-Qassam Brigades began its military jihad against the Zionist enemy using stones, then the knife, the pistol, and the rifles. It even manufactured a locally made machine gun with the hands of its sons. Its weapons developed into explosive devices such as the Shawaz bomb, and several versions of it were manufactured (Shawaz 1, 2, 3, and 4), and for suicide operations that were used. It contains explosive belts, bombs, and remote-detonated explosives.
The Brigades are now famous for developing the “Qassam missile,” which is the most prominent weapon used in its military activity in Palestine, and is concentrated in the Gaza Strip.
They also developed its local missiles to have a longer range, such as the M75 missile, which it named with the letter M after Commander Ibrahim al-Maqadma, with a range of 75 km. Then it was followed in 2014 by the appearance of the J80 missile, which was named with the letter J after Commander Ahmed al-Jaabari, with a range of 80 km, and the R160 missile, which was named with the letter R after the Rantissi commander, which has a range of 160 km, and the Sejil-55 missile, which has a range of 55 km.
The Qassam Brigades possess a large variety of anti-armor guided missiles, such as the Kornet missile, the Concourse missile, the Phoenix missile (the North Korean version of the Fagot missile), and the Sagger missile, and also possess anti-aircraft missiles, such as the SAM-7 missile.
Although the Qassam Brigades’ missile stock is numbers that no one knows, estimates of this stock vary. According to what was previously reported by American newspapers, the New York Times published after 2021 that Hamas has between 20,000 and 30,000 rockets.
Meanwhile, in the same time period, the Washington Post estimated the number at between eight thousand and ten thousand... while international reports indicate that Al-Qassam possesses tens of thousands of rockets manufactured within the Strip.
On the seventh day of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it had targeted the occupied city of Safad with the “Ayyash 250” missile, which has a range of 220 kilometers, this missile into service in 2021 in Operation “Saif Al-Quds.”
According to the British Sky News channel, Hamas disrupted the Zionist air defense system known as the “Iron Dome” during its recent attack, by launching large series of missiles of various models, most notably the “Fateh-110” surface-to-surface missiles, its warhead weighs up to 500 kg.
Meanwhile, the American newspaper “The New York Times” reported, in a report dating back to 2021, that Zionist intelligence estimates that the “Hamas” and “Islamic Jihad” movements possess up to 30,000 missiles.
The report of the Al-Quds Center for General Studies indicates that Hamas rockets have developed over the years to become larger in size, have stronger explosive capabilities, and longer range, but what they lack is accuracy.
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resource : SABA
