TEL AVIV [MENL] -- A Palestinian insurgency group is said to have expanded
its warhead payload on a new short-range rocket and deployed the weapon in
the West Bank.Hamas is said to be developing a new version of its Kassam-1 short-range
rocket. Israeli intelligence sources said the new model Kassam-1 will
continue to have a range of five kilometers, that of the original model. But
the updated version will have a large warhead.The Palestinian group first deployed the Kassam-1 in attacks on Israeli
communities near the Gaza Strip in October. Nobody was hurt in the attack.Hamas is also developing a longer-range Kassam-2 rocket. Kassam-2, the
intelligence sources said, will have a range of between six and 10
kilometers.
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