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2024-01-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Hamas’s cobbled together weapons arsenal still proving deadly to IDF troops in Gaza
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[IsraelTimes] Terror group has smuggled in range of guns, RPGs and anti-tank missiles from Iran, China, Russia and North Korea, while in the Strip it manufactures explosives from fertilizers.
Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
n- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gazoo
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
An News Agency that Dare Not be Named analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas
 ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
launched its October 7 massacre in Israel shows the terror group has amassed a diverse patchwork arsenal of weapons from around the world — much of it smuggled past a 17-year blockade that was aimed at stopping just such a military buildup.
Those weapons have proved deadly during weeks of intense urban warfare in Gaza, where Hamas forces of Evil are typically armed only with what they can carry, and employ hit-and-run tactics against lopsided Israeli advantages in arms and technology. An RPG attack on a building the IDF had rigged with explosives in central Gaza took the lives of 21 soldiers this week. Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
Hamas propaganda videos posted over the past few weeks appear to show the shootings of Israeli soldiers recorded through the scopes of sniper rifles.
"We are searching everywhere for weapons, for political support, for money," Hamas front man Ghazi Hamad recently said in an interview with the AP, declining to discuss specifically who has been providing its weapons or how they were snuck into Gaza.
Experts who reviewed the images for AP were able to identify distinguishing features and markings that show where many of the weapons wielded by Hamas fighters were manufactured. But such an analysis does not provide evidence of whether they were provided by the governments of those countries or purchased in a thriving Middle East black market, with weapons and components listed for sale on social media in such war-torn countries as Iraq, Libya and Syria.
What is clear, however, is that many of the images show Hamas forces of Evil toting weapons that appear to be relatively new, evidence the group has found ways of getting arms past the air-and-sea blockade of the Gaza Strip — possibly by boat, through tunnels or concealed in shipments of food and other goods.
"The majority of their arms are of Russian, Chinese or Iranian origin, but North Korean weapons and those produced in former Warsaw Pact countries are also present in the arsenal," said N.R. Jenzen-Jones, an expert in military arms who is director of the Australian-based Armament Research Services.
Despite the buildup, Israel maintains a massive advantage, with a powerful array of modern tanks, artillery, helicopter gunships, and an air force of US-made fighter jets. Israel’s military says it has killed close to 10,000 Hamas terrorists, compared to the deaths of at least 550 of its own soldiers, more than 330 of whom were killed in Hamas’s onslaught.
Israel launched its offensive on Hamas following the terror group’s murderous rampage through communities and a music festival in southern Israel on October 7, in which it killed close to 1,200 people and took another 253 hostages, 132 of whom are believed to still be held captive in Gaza.
At least 25,900 Gazooks have been killed in the war, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said Thursday, an unverified figure which is believed to include close to 10,000 Hamas operatives Israel said it has killed during fighting in the Strip, as well as civilians killed by misfired Paleostinian rockets.
Imagery reviewed by the AP showed a Hamas arsenal featuring weapons ranging from small arms and machine guns to shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and craft-produced anti-tank projectiles.
Among the most distinctive is the oversized AM-50 Sayyad (Arabic for "hunter"), an Iranian-made sniper rifle that fires a .50- caliber round powerful enough to punch through up to an inch of steel. It has previously been spotted on battlefields in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, Syria, and in the hands of Shia militias in Iraq.
Hamas button men have also been seen carrying an array of Soviet-era weapons that have been copied and manufactured in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and China. They include variants of the Russian-designed 9M32 Strela, a portable heat-seeking anti-aircraft missile system.
Jenzen-Jones said a grip stock on one of the missile launchers a fighter was seen holding is distinctive to a variant manufactured in China and used by the Iranian military and its allies, including Hezbollah in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, a terror group closely aligned with Hamas.
Weapons recovered from Hamas forces of Evil by the Israel Defense Forces include what appear to be Italian-designed TC/6 anti-tank mines. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
Seán Moorhouse, a former British Army officer and explosive ordnance disposal expert, said it too had been copied by Iran’s arms industry.
The Israel Defense Forces and US officials have long accused Iran of supplying money, training and weapons to Hamas and allied forces of Evil in Gaza, including the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem 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...
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Iranian representatives at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
did not respond to emails from the AP about whether their government supplied weapons to Hamas, including AM-50 Sayyad sniper rifles. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
a week after AP sought comment, Hamas posted a video purporting to show forces of Evil in Gaza using machining equipment to make their own copies of the rifle.
Master gunsmith Don Fraley reviewed that December 20 video and said it would be nearly impossible for Hamas to manufacture a safe and accurate .50-caliber sniper rifle with the rudimentary equipment shown.
"You’re going to have to be a rock star at machine shop work. And I didn’t see any of that," said Fraley, a former US Army Special Forces soldier and sniper for the Kentucky State Police. "These folks are just trying to cover their tracks."
An Israeli military official familiar with Hamas’s arsenal said the group uses a combination of smuggled "off-the-shelf" weaponry, including AK-47s, RPGs and anti-aircraft missiles, as well as a large collection of home-grown weapons often made with easily accessible civilian materials.
For instance, the official said, the group uses lathes to shape metal into rockets and mortars and fits them with explosives manufactured from fertilizers. Other homemade weapons include a launcher capable of firing 14 rockets simultaneously and the "Zuwari" drone, an explosives-laden aircraft that was used to strike Israeli observation towers and knock out cameras on October 7.
"There is a huge military/defense industry inside the Gaza Strip," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under military briefing rules.
The official said most of the smuggled weapons are believed to have been brought in through Egypt and are generally easy to purchase and did not need to be supplied by the country of origin.
One such weapon seen in the hands of Hamas forces of Evil is a version of the Chinese machine gun known as the Type 80, a model that has also been copied by the Iranians and renamed as the PKM-T80.
Jonathan Ferguson, the curator of firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum in England, said from what he could see from the photos and videos, versions of the gun made in China and Iran were so similar as to be indistinguishable.
Ferguson was also able to identify a rocket-propelled grenade with marks showing it was made in Bulgaria. AP previously reported Hamas used RPGs with a distinctive red stripe indicating they were made in North Korea.
Among the more sophisticated Hamas home-grown weapons is a copy of a Russian anti-tank rocket called the PG-7VR, which is specifically designed to defeat reactive-armor systems like those used on Israel’s Merkava Mark VI main battle tanks. Such tanks are covered with explosive-filed plates that explode outwards to disrupt incoming projectiles.
In propaganda videos posted in October, masked forces of Evil are seen assembling a version of the Russian rocket that Hamas has renamed the al-Yasin 105, in honor of the group’s founder killed in an Israeli air strike in 2004. While the original Russian version can melt through up to two feet of steel armor, experts say it’s not clear whether the home-brewed explosives in the Hamas knock-off are as potent.
Hamas has posted multiple videos of fighters firing the rockets at Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers. Those videos are typically cut off after the warhead explodes, making it impossible to independently verify whether the target was destroyed.
Also, in a tactic borrowed from the battlefields of Ukraine, Hamas appears to have obtained or copied Iranian-designed drones that pack warheads that explode when crashed into their targets. Off-the-shelf, Chinese-made quadcopter drones have also been adapted to drop explosives on tanks and troops.
"The availability of commercial off-the-shelf unmanned aerial vehicles, these light consumer drones, has radically changed warfare in recent years," Jenzen-Jones said. "We’ve seen them, obviously, in Syria, in Yemen, in Iraq, in Ukraine, and now in Gaza."
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