Over more than a decade, the Islamic militant Hamas group has built up a large arsenal of rockets and missiles. But the blockade and three wars with Israel — the most recent in 2014 — failed to prevent Hamas from expanding its arsenal. Monday’s rocket strike was the furthest a Gaza rocket has landed since 2014, when Hamas struck the northern Israeli city of Haifa, about 150 kilometres away. Last November, Hamas fired such a missile, known as Kornet, at a bus from which Israeli soldiers had just exited. — Drones: Hamas has developed an early-stage drone program, displaying images of Israeli fields purportedly filmed by these aircraft.

Source: National Post March 25, 2019 19:12 UTC