June 3, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9374
Al-Jazeera Report On Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades Anti-Tank Unit Claims Unit Is Prepared For An Israeli Ground Invasion, Shows Kornet Missile Simulator
June 3, 2021
Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) aired a report on Hamas anti-tank unit on May 31, 2021. Al-Jazeera s reporter met with an Al-Qas am Brigades anti-tank unit inside a Hamas military tunnel. Unit members showed the Al-Jazeera correspondent the spot where they launched an attack on an IDF armored bus in the Zikim military base on May 20, 2020. A member of the unit said that he and another mujahid spent five days monitoring movements within the position and reciting Quran, and that when they spotted a bus full of soldiers they fired a Kornet missile. According to IDF sources, the bus in question was empty and there were no Israeli casualties in the incident. Members of the anti-tank unit also told Al-Jazeera that they were responsible for another Kornet attack against an IDF vehicle in