Similar Palestinian Rockets
See also: Palestinian domestic weapons productionOther Palestinian militant groups have also developed home-made rockets. The media generally refer to all Palestinian high-trajectory rockets as "Qassam rockets" or "Qassam missiles", while they call most rockets fired from Lebanon "Katyushas", as a Katyusha is not a specific model but rather a generic class of rocket.
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad – Al Quds 101 & 2
- Popular Resistance Committees – al Nasser-3
- Tanzim – Saria-2
- Fatah – Kafah
The Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center estimated that in 2007 the proportions of rockets fired were:
- 34% – Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- 22% – Hamas
- 8% – Fatah
- 6% – Popular Resistance Committees
- 30% – unknown
The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reports that the number of Palestinian rockets fired per year were:
- 2001: 4
- 2002: 35
- 2003: 155
- 2004: 281
- 2005: 179
- 2006: 946
- 2007: 896
- 2008: 2,048
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