Terror Groups Threaten to Bombard Central Israel with Kassams

Arutz Sheva ^ | 2-5-06 | Scott Shiloh

[SJackson]

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a terror group from Gaza, is working to open up an eastern front against Israel, based on firing Kassam rockets from Judea and Samaria into central Israel.

The armed wing of the Fatah party, the Al-Aksa Brigades, and the PRC are joining forces to smuggle the Kassam rocket technology from Gaza into Judea and Samaria. The two groups said they would step up their efforts in response to last night’s IAF strike in northern Gaza which resulted in the deaths of three terrorists from the Al-Aksa Brigades. Eight others were wounded in the raid.

The groups said in an announcement that their response would be “everywhere the occupation exists,” meaning in this context, everywhere within the State of Israel.

Since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza district last August, one of the main strategic goals of the terrorist organizations based in the Palestinian Authority, is to threaten central Israel with Kassam rockets.

Abu Al-Sa’ad, commander of the PRC in northern Gaza, said in an interview for an Internet site run by the Islamic Jihad that his group was planning on expanding “military” operations against Israel in the near future.

He said his goal was to open an eastern front against the Jewish state from Judea and Samaria, a region located due east of Israel’s densely populated and heavily industrialized coastal plain.

Since the 1995 Olso accords, much of that area has been ruled by the Palestinian Authority. Israel has repeatedly accused the PA of providing terrorists with bases to carry out attacks against Israel.

Al-Sa’ad said that the Kassam rocket has proved itself as an important and effective weapon in the struggle against Israel during the most recent intifada or Arab uprising, also known as the Oslo War, which began in September 2000. During that war, hundreds of Kassams were fired from Gaza into Gush Katif. Since the Israeli withdrawal last August, Jewish towns and kibbutzim in the western Negev have borne the brunt of the Kassam attacks.

In contrast to Gaza, there has been documentation of only one Kassam missile firing from Judea and Samaria. That incident reportedly occurred in December 2005, when a Kassam-1 rocket was fired by Fatah terrorists towards Afula, an Israeli city in the Jezreel Vally, north of Samaria.

Israel is spending billions of dollars building a controversial security barrier roughly along the pre-1967 cease-fire lines as a means of preventing terrorists from infiltrating into central Israel. The use of Kassams to attack Israeli targets on the coastal plain could severely reduce the barrier’s effectiveness as a security palliative.

A few months ago, IDF troops captured PRC terrorists as they attempted to infiltrate into Israel from Egypt. The terrorists had intended to reach Judea and Samaria in order to develop the infrastructure for firing more sophisticated Kassam rockets into central Israel.

Al-Sa’ad said his group was not deterred by the IDF’s policy of eliminating terrorist leaders. He said the assassinations only serve to strengthen their resolve and desire for revenge against Israel.

The PRC, he said, was engaged in a jihad, or holy war to liberate all of “Palestine”, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, leaving no room for the Jewish state.

In May 2004, PRC terrorists murdered Tali Hatuel and her four daughters, as they were driving from Gush Katif to Ashkelon. The Islamic Jihad also took credit for the murder.

[SJackson]

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A step up in attacks by Fatah would make perfect political sense now that they're out of power.

[nonliberal]

Kassams

Are they anything like Tribbles?

[BunnySlippers]

Casey Kassam

[Brilliant]

Now that Fatah is no longer in power, they will become much more violent.

[CodeToad]

How smart can a Muslim be is Muslims want to attack a country with nuclear weapons???

[Hypervigilant]

Nukes make so-so tactical weapons...How does one hit the guilty party only?

[VeniVidiVici]

Funny how the Palestinians haven't figured that out with regards to Iran.

[CodeToad]

"How does one hit the guilty party only?"


At some point Israel might consider all of PA "guilty". If the old Svoiet Union had attacked the US we wouldn't have been too picky about where our nukes landed, either.

[cardinal4]

Kassam rocket technology

Isnt that oxymoronic?

[fella]

Now that Fatah is no longer in power, they will become much more violent.

And why not? Now they are free to revel in their wicked murderousness that is the core belief of their so called religion. They certainly do believe in peace and there is nothing more peaceful than piles and piles of dead infidel women and children in a conquered land, just look at their history.

[NRA2BFree]

We need to send Rodney King over there to ask them if "we all can't just get along", and if that doesn't work, we can send
President Bush over there to win their hearts and minds. LOL < / my bad >

[M. Espinola]

The “Kassam I” is 31 inches long, 2.4 inches in diameter, weighs 12 pounds, has about a pound of explosives in the warhead and has a range of about three kilometers.

“Kassam II” is 71 inches long, six inches in diameter, weighs 70 pounds, has about 11-15 pounds of explosives in the warhead and has a range of about eight kilometers.

“Kassam III” is over 80 inches long, 6.7 inches in diameter, weighs about 200 pounds, has 22-44 pounds of explosives in the warhead and has a range of about ten kilometers.

Kassam rocket threats to all Israelis, yet Head-in-the-Sand-Olmert offers $53.2 million to finance the "PA" PLO-Fatah?? Madness!

Thanks for the $53.2 million!