Hamas militant video reveals how its rockets are made before Israel attack

A video released by Hamas militants reveals how their rockets are made. Hamas has built up a vast range of missiles, rockets and suicide drones in covert workshops hidden in the overcrowded city of Gaza with technical assistance and smuggled parts from Iran. The militant group had to manage without its longstanding smuggling system for Iranian weaponry when a combined effort by Israel, Egypt and Sudan closed down the well-used route. The smuggling trail went from Tehran to Sudan by ship; from there to warehouses in Khartoum run by the elite Quds Force wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; and finally through 1,200 tunnels under the Sinai Peninsula border with Gaza. Most of the secret passages were destroyed by Egypt between 2013 and 2014. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #israel #hamas #palestine #gaza