How Hamas Makes Rockets with Water Pipes?

How Hamas Makes Rockets with Water Pipes?
This is what Hamas uses to make its rockets. Water pipes!
It’s an unconventional approach to say the least, repurposing water pipes into rockets. These pipes come from a remarkable source: a $100 million donation by the European Union for water infrastructure in Gaza and Palestine.
Hamas' transformation process involves digging up these pipes, cutting them into sections, processing them in makeshift workshops, and attaching explosives. This process raises concerns because, despite their limited industrial capacity, Hamas can produce a significant number of rockets from recycled materials.
The homemade rockets lack accuracy, making it challenging for Hamas to precisely target Israeli locations. In response, Israel employs the expensive Iron Dome Defense System to counter these threats. However, the production costs of Hamas' rockets remain significantly lower. This means they can manufacture a larger quantity of weapons, presenting a challenge for Israel in maintaining the fight using expensive weaponry.
Hamas has been using homemade rockets, such as Qassam missiles, against Israel since 2001. Currently, they possess an arsenal of six missile types, including long-range options like the J-90 and J-80, capable of reaching Tel Aviv, and the R-160 missile for targeting Haifa. The SH-2021 missile boasts an impressive range of 220 kilometers.

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The Palestinian group Hamas has published footage showing the complete process of making rockets from water pipes. The footage shows how water pipes are dug out of the ground, after which they are cut into pieces, processed and cleaned in artisanal workshops. Warheads containing explosives are then attached to them. Thus, with virtually no industrial capacity necessary for the production of weapons, Hamas successfully produces a significant number of rockets.

The footage also shows launchers of various types, through which the Palestinian group launches rocket attacks on Israel. However, the accuracy of such missiles is very conditional and does not allow them to accurately hit Israeli targets.

At the same time, the cost of resources spent on the production of such ammunition remains extremely insignificant, while the Israeli army is forced to spend high-cost Iron Dome air defense missiles to shoot them down.

Homemade Qassam missiles were first used by Palestinians against Israel in 2001. Currently, Hamas is armed with 6 more types of missiles, including the third generation Qassam, developed in 2005 and capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 18 kilometers, as well as longer-range models.

The longest-range types of Palestinian missiles are currently the J90 - J80, specially created to hit targets in Tel Aviv with a missile range of up to 80 kilometers, capable of hitting Haifa R160 with a range of up to 160 km, as well as the SH2021, used for the first time in 85, whose flight range reaches 220 kilometers.