Hamas says it has first guided missile

Source: World Tribune, 23-6-2006
GAZA CITY - Hamas has reported the development of the first guided Palestinian missile.
Hamas sources said the movement has been developing the first short-range missile with a guidance system. They said the new missile would significantly improve the accuracy of Palestinian missile strikes against "Israeli" targets from the Gaza Strip.
"The missiles are not yet ready for launch, but all of the technical obstacles have been surmounted," a Hamas source said.
They said missile prototypes have already been assembled in Hamas factories in the Gaza Strip.
"In the last months we accelerated the improvement of operations of our missile production," Abu Abdullah, a senior Hamas operative told WorldNet Daily. "We have already improved missiles and in the future we will have the fourth model of our Kassam missiles, which will be electronically-guided missiles and very accurate."
This would mark the fourth variant of the Hamas-origin Kassam missile. The Kassam-1 has a range of about five kilometers; the Kassam-2 about eight kilometers and the Kassam-3 10-12 kilometers. None of these Kassams contain guidance systems.
Abdullah said Hamas` latest missile would be able to strike central "Israel" from the Gaza Strip. He said Hamas would also smuggle the missile to the West Bank.
Currently, an estimated 30 percent of Kassam missiles fail to leave the Gaza Strip. Another 20 percent of Kassams fail to explode upon impact.