The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) achieved an important military achievement during the last round of fighting in Gaza, through which it revealed that the balance of power seemed to change something between the two parties.

The newspaper said in an analysis by its writer, Amos Harel, that the remarkable improvement in the Palestinian resistance in the long-range fire and the huge number of rockets and mortars fired at Israel was remarkable.

The Israeli analyst explained that this was not the case with regard to aircraft and drones, which did not prove their worth in the last war.

As for the missiles, the writer says that they represented an achievement that won the recognition of specialists on the Israeli side, indicating that Hamas and Islamic Jihad - to a lesser extent - succeeded in developing a local military industry in the Gaza Strip despite the closure of Egypt - with the payment of Israel - its borders with the Strip almost Full.

Contrary to what many Israelis believe - the analyst says - these weapons are not produced by primitive means, but rather there is an organized plan to produce them, and many of them already come from assembly lines, and a man who has been in the field for years says, "This is not an enemy to be reckoned with. They are." They are no less dangerous than the weapons developers in Iran or Hezbollah, even if they work in much more difficult conditions. "

A big improvement

According to an Israeli army spokesman, the Palestinian resistance fired from Gaza about 4,350 shells at Israel during the last 11 days of fighting, including rockets and mortar shells, and about 3,400 (about 78%) fell inside Israel, while 680 (15.5) fell. %) In the Gaza Strip, and 280 (6.5%) in the sea.

The spokesman added that about 200 long or medium-range missiles were fired, about 120 of them landed on the Dan area, while the rest went towards Jerusalem, or other areas - including Wadi Araba - about 250 kilometers from the Strip, which is the longest. The range of a missile fired from Gaza so far, and the fire killed 11 Israelis, and an Israeli soldier was killed by an anti-tank missile near the Strip, and more than 350 Israelis were wounded.

Compared to Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the resistance fired a total of 4,600 shells from Gaza during 50 days of fighting, so this time the resistance fired nearly 400 shells a day, more than 4 times what it fired in 2014.

Before this operation - as the writer says - the Israeli defense establishment believed that Hamas and other Palestinian organizations in the Gaza Strip had approximately 15,000 rockets, and assuming that the Israeli army destroyed about a thousand of them, Hamas has about 60% of its original arsenal, including hundreds Missiles capable of hitting central Israel.

Although the range of rockets fired into central Israel did not exceed intelligence estimates before the operation, it apparently raised the concerns of the Israelis and the media, especially since the number of rockets fired at central Israel was very small during Operation Protective Edge and Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012.

The writer cautioned that Hamas has succeeded in some cases, such as launching more than 100 rockets at Ashkelon in less than half an hour, and firing dozens at the Dan area, not just because of intimidation and creating fear, but because the Palestinians believed that flooding the Iron Dome missile system with targets would be difficult. Her objection, some have been so.

The arms industry in Gaza

With regard to the arms industry in Gaza, the writer said that it originated during the second intifada, when the first home-made Qassam missile was fired at Sderot in 2001, before the Hamas weapons project began to be modernized, relying on a smuggling system set up by Iran. Indeed, regular missiles were smuggled into Gaza using a road. A complex passes through Sudan, Egypt and Sinai, including the 75-km Fajr missiles that were destroyed by Israel in 2012.

In the summer of 2013, smuggling stopped almost completely after the military coup in Cairo, so that the new authorities chose security cooperation with Israel instead of helping Hamas, which is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The rockets fired at Israel in the last operation were locally manufactured.

The writer said that the Israeli security apparatus distinguishes between two main objectives for Hamas, the first is to "continue the effort," which means manufacturing more missiles with increasing range and lethality, and the Gaza Strip possesses sufficient technological knowledge for this purpose, and the other goal is missile accuracy, as Hamas seeks Hezbollah represented the development and installation of methods that would improve the accuracy of its missiles.

And this goal - as the writer sees it - has strategic importance, because the accuracy of the weapons will enable Hamas to strike vital Israeli sites such as airports, military bases, power stations and ports, and the development of drones is part of this effort.

The writer said that Israel is particularly interested in the second goal, indicating that this is the secret that a large number of air strikes during this operation were targeting sites and computer networks associated with the development of precision weapons, in addition to the bombing of control rooms and operations in the tunnel system, in which more than 10 figures are central to these projects, including two project leaders.

An amazing ability to be creative

The writer pointed out that the resistance in the Gaza Strip had accumulated and developed a lot of technological knowledge, noting that Gaza experts exceeded their creativity by using any available inputs to their counterparts associated with Iran.

And because Gaza is almost completely isolated from the rest of the world, its weapons differ somewhat in nature from the weapons developed in Iran and the West, due to their adoption of different standards, as they measure the diameters of the rockets in inches instead of centimeters and millimeters, because most of the rockets are made of tubes that have been redirected from construction sites.

Nevertheless - the writer says - the rockets of the people of Gaza have serial numbers, and specific colors have been chosen for them, slogans and drawings, and the name of the model is also placed on the missile, and therefore Gaza's ability to innovate sometimes raises eyebrows in Israel, where Hamas has transformed motorcycle engines to make engines Boats.

Even after the massive blow to missile production facilities and teams - the author concludes - the resistance in the Gaza Strip still has enough experts and materials to resume weapons production, although the recovery may take some time, but no one believes that the Palestinians will abandon the missile project, because It was on this tour at least the only way that did not disappoint them.