Israel fazed with new Hamas rockets

Israeli authorities have become scared after Hamas embarked on new rocket tests in the Gaza Strip, World Tribune reported.

Israeli military sources said Hamas has renewed the testing of extended-range surface-to-surface rockets.

The sources said Hamas engineers have overseen the development of new rockets in launches from the Gaza Strip into the Mediterranean Sea.

“They have accelerated all efforts to rearm and develop much more powerful weapons than we have seen until now,” a source said, according to the website.

The sources said Hamas has so far launched five advanced rockets in tests from the Gaza coast into the Mediterranean over the last month. They said the tests appear to include that of an indigenous variant of the Syrian-origin M-302, with a range of 160 kilometers.

Hamas fired several M-302s during the 51-day war with Israel in July and August 2014. The missiles reached the northern Israeli port of Haifa.