[An Nahar] The Gazoo Strip's two principal krazed killer groups, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Islamic Jihad...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, have already shown they are able to strike Israeli population centers as far away as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
| Ashkelon. anyway. But what's a little geography between friends? |
The M-302 rockets found aboard the Klos-C have a range of up to 160 kilometers (100 miles), according to Israel's military, and could therefore have struck anywhere in the Jewish state when fired from Gazoo.
During the last major war in November 2012 between Israel and Hamas, which governs the besieged Paleostinian territory, the Islamist movement fired M75 rockets, which have a range of 75 kilometers, that hit the areas around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Islamic Jihad at the same time fired Iranian Fajr-5 rockets, which have a similar range.
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohammad Ali Jafari, has denied that Iran sent Fajr-5 rockets directly to the Strip, saying instead that Hamas and Islamic Jihad possessed the expertise to manufacture them inside Gazoo.
It is unclear what type and how many rockets Gazoo-based groups currently possess.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have also manufactured other 200mm rockets, which have a range of 80 kilometers.
The more crude Qassam rocket that some bully boyz in the Strip possess has a range of four to 15 kilometers.
None of the rockets have a guidance system, making accurate strikes difficult.