List of notable Qassam Attacks
On June 28, 2004, the first fatal Qassam rocket attack occurred in Sderot, when rockets launched by Hamas killed two Israelis.
On September 29, 2004, a Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot, killing two Israeli children. It was the second fatal Qassam rocket attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
On October 3, 2004, Mahadi Mushtaha, a senior member of the Qassam production and development team in the Gaza Strip was killed by an Israeli targeted assassination. Mushtaha, a resident of the Jabalia refugee camp, was alleged to have been the manager of workshops and labs producing components of the Qassam rockets. [4]
On January 21, 2005, the fifth Israeli died from wounds sustained during a Qassam rocket attack in Sderot.
On March 2, 2005, IDF forces discovered a bomb-lab near Jenin that manufactures Qassam rockets. IDF Sappers safely detonated the lab, which contained many explosives and a Qassam rocket in initial stage of production. [5] This is not the first time that a Qassam rocket was found in the West Bank.
On July 14, 2005, Dana Galkovitch, a 22-year-old Israeli, was killed in a Qassam attack in the Netiv Ha'asara kibbutz, just north of the Gaza Strip [6]
On September 12, 2005, a Qassam rocket hit a Israeli town, following the Gaza Pullout.
On September 23, 2005, at least 3 Qassam rockets were shot from the Gaza Strip, hitting the Israeli town of Sderot. [7]
On September 24, 2005, five Israelis were injured when Palestinian terrorists launched about 30 rockets on Israeli communities from the Gaza Strip. This attack followed an incident the previous day, in which 20 Palestinians, including 16 civilians, were killed when a vehicle carrying Qassam rockets exploded during a Hamas rally in Jabalya. The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are still unknown. To date, no evidence has been found to substantiate Hamas’ claim that Israeli interference was responsible for the accident.[8]
In mid-December 2005, A Qassam rocket hit near the moshav of Ram-on, part of the Ta'anachim group of agricultural villages outside the northern town of Afula.
On December 26, 2005, a Qassam rocket landed at a very small distance from a kindergarten during a Chanukah party at kibbutz Sa'ad.[9]
February 3, 2006, a Qassam rocket struck a family's house in the western Negev village of Kibbutz Karmiya, slightly injuring four people, icluding a 7-month-old baby. [10]