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areas where rockets have hit, as well as statements by leaders of
Palestinian armed groups that population centers were being targeted, indicate that the armed groups deliberately attacked Israeli civilians and civilian objects." In another 2005 statement, the group noted that as the ruling authority of Gaza, Hamas was obligated to uphold the laws of war and should appropriately punish those responsible for serious violations". The international community considers indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian structures that do not discriminate between civilians and military targets as
581:(..) Under international humanitarian law, (..) Parties to the conflict must also take necessary precautions to protect civilians in their power from the effects of attack. This includes avoiding, to the maximum extent feasible, co-locating military objectives in the vicinity of densely populated civilian neighbourhoods. This means the parties should avoid endangering civilians by storing ammunition in, and launching attacks from, populated civilian areas."
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Israel has been rocket-free and shows the summed-up total numbers of
Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. "Israel has been under non-stop rocket attacks for years (..) Whenever a rocket is fired, it restarts. Sadly, this counter never really gets above an hour", Friedman said on July 18, 2014, during the
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Early designs used a single nozzle which screwed into the base; later rockets use a seven-nozzle design, with the nozzles drilled directly into the rocket baseplate. This alteration both increases the tolerance of the rocket to small nozzle design defects, and makes manufacture easier by allowing the
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Incidents: June 28, 2004 (2 killed), September 29, 2004 (2 killed), January 15, 2005 (1 killed), June 7, 2005 (3 killed), July 14, 2005 (1 killed), November 15, 2006 (1 killed), November 21, 2006 (1 killed), May 21, 2007 (1 killed), May 27, 2007 (1 killed), February 27, 2008 (1 killed), May 12, 2008
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early warning system in Sderot, Ashkelon, and other potential targets placed at risk. The system consists of an advanced radar that detects rockets as they are being launched, and loudspeakers warn civilians to take cover between 15 and 45 seconds before impact in an attempt to minimize the threat
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manufactured the first Qassam-1 rocket, with a 2,500m range, in June 2001. This development in rocket manufacturing and development was a turning point in the war between
Palestinian armed factions and Israel. The first Qassam produced was the Qassam-1, with a maximum range of 3 to 4.5 kilometers
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has called the use of Qassam rockets by Hamas against civilians and civilian targets illegal under international law. In a 2005 statement, the group said that "such weapons are therefore indiscriminate when used against targets in population centers. The absence of
Israeli military forces in the
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An online clock timer, developed by Aaron
Friedman and Yehonatan Tsirolnik, that automatically resets when Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel occur uses information from the IDF Home Front Command system and counts time up from the last Palestinian rocket attack on Israel. It displays how long
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as a "war crime", stating that "Palestinian armed groups operating in the Gaza Strip fired thousands of indiscriminate rockets and mortars into Israel; firing munitions which cannot be aimed accurately into civilian areas is a war crime, and statements by Hamas and
Palestinian armed groups also
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Palestinian armed groups have stored munitions in and fired indiscriminate rockets from residential areas in the Gaza Strip, and available evidence indicates that they continue to do both during the
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Palestinian militant groups have also developed home-made rockets. The media generally refer to all Palestinian high-trajectory rockets as "Qassam rockets" or "Qassam missiles", while they call most rockets fired from Lebanon
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Palestinian armed groups' use of Qassam rockets against civilian and civilian targets a war crime and a violation of international law.
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estimated that in 2007 the proportions of rockets fired were:
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Gaza's Bottle Rockets - Why Hamas' Arsenal Wasn't Worth a War
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1369:"Watch: Iron Dome Intercepts More Than 10 Rockets at Once"
1246:"Historical Survey of Israeli Leaders: Will Rockets Fall?"
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Anti-Israeli Terrorism in 2007 and its Trends in 2008
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1722:The Homemade Rocket That Could Change The Mideast
1527:"Abbas: No justification for Gaza rocket attacks"
1081:"UN call for immediate Gaza truce, attacks go on"
1732:Qassam-2 missile a wild card in Mideast conflict
527:. An amateur YouTube video, showing the Israeli
1780:The Operational Aspects to Fighting the Qassam
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1717:GlobalSecurity.org – Qassam Rocket
1625:"Protection of the civilian population"
1427:. Israel Defense Forces. Archived from
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1021:"Palestinians launch rockets at Israel"
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1399:"ISRAEL HAS BEEN ROCKET FREE FOR..."
1272:"Peres: Enough with Qassam hysteria"
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1026:Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
294:Qassam rockets are named after the
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2217:Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund
1934:Hamas government in the Gaza Strip
1795:", Volume 9, No. 3, November 2006.
1450:Press, Viva Sarah (19 July 2014).
1323:Curiel, Ilana (24 November 2008).
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798:. 3 September 2007. Archived from
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1756:Photos: Qassam rockets in Sderot
1744:A Visit to a Gaza Rocket Factory
1373:www.israelnationalnews.com/News/
490:A Qassam rocket is displayed in
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2343:Hamas most wanted playing cards
2090:Murder of Yaron and Efrat Ungar
1738:Gaza rockets kill two in Israel
1222:Ulrike Putz (29 January 2008).
590:illegal under international law
539:In 2012, Palestinian president
195:sugar and potassium nitrate mix
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1454:. www.israel21c.org. ISRAEL21c
1128:Gaza's rocket threat to Israel
947:"History of the Qassam Rocket"
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1750:Katyusha & Qassam Rockets
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1503:. Youtube.com. Archived from
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1104:"Man killed in Qassam attack"
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1554:Soffer, Ari (13 July 2014).
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2115:2006 Gaza cross-border raid
1734: – CNN (March 5, 2002)
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596:Similar Palestinian rockets
500:Israeli Ministry of Defense
449:constructed using a simple
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2060:Nidal Fat'hi Rabah Farahat
1875:Takeover of the Gaza Strip
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762:"What are Qassam Rockets?"
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616:Palestinian Islamic Jihad
525:2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
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369:Rocket, design and cost
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1091:on January 18, 2009.
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304:Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
71:Gaza–Israel conflict
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2238:Tomorrow's Pioneers
2110:IDF outpost bombing
620:Al Quds 101 & 2
575:current hostilities
557:Human rights groups
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171:Warhead weight
2408:Insurgency weapons
2326:Criticism of Hamas
2255:Shehab News Agency
2212:Mujama al-Islamiya
1980:Al-Qassam Brigades
1785:2016-08-20 at the
1670:on 13 October 2009
1535:. 11 February 2012
1148:Human Rights Watch
1029:. 10 February 2002
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154:Qassam 2: 11.5 cm;
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140:Qassam 2: 180 cm;
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