Tactics of Terrorism - Rocket and Mortar Attacks

Rocket and Mortar Attacks

The use of rocket and mortar attacks had been widely used from 1982–2012, in the example of the middle east rocket attacks against cities and settlements had been carried out by political entities such as Hizballa and Hamas (not counted as state terrorism) and to non political organization such as Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, al-Qaeda and many others. the attacks very from lunching mortar (qassam) shells and rockets up to using a ballistic missiles by Hezbollah.

The number of attacks using explosive projectiles has grown after decrease in suicide attacks as can be seen in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, according to the reports somewhere between 800000 people to million and a half are being in direct danger of mortar and missile range. In a research published in 2011 15,000 people had been treated or need treatment for PTSD and 1,000 people are being treated in psychometric facilities due to reasons directly to mortar (qassam) and rocket attacks (Grad).