🔽🔴The Mujahid, Commander-in-Chief of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Muhammad al-Deif (Abu Khaled)

Today Gaza and tomorrow the West Bank, Jaffa and Jerusalem will not remain an inch of Palestine

Weapon development is the central matter in the advancement Al-Qassam
Brigades’ work

Fajr Al-Intisar newspaper conducted this comprehensive dialogue with the Mujahid, Commander-in-Chief of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Muhammad Al-Deif (Abu Khaled), about the overall situation related to the Palestinian resistance.

Part 1

Could you give us a quick overview of the first military attempt by the Al-Qassam Brigades to confront the Zionist occupation?  What weapons were used in this operation?

Muhammad Al-Deif

The beginnings were basically operations that were not directed against the occupation. The battalions began to work against the agents in most of the operations,

but there was an operation that served as the beginning of the military action. It was on January 1, 1992, against the rabbi of Kfar Darom, whose name was I believe Dranshishtan, and he was shot by the early brothers from the 7 pistol that they owned. 
They had no one else and these were very simple beginnings

but arrangements were made later and the main focus was on the agents in the beginning, and this did not require the presence of automatic weapons
In quick, brief glances, how were the Qassam Brigades able to manufacture their weapons in the beginning? Did it rely on the minds of its men? Or did bring the weapon from abroad?

Muhammad Al-Deif

This topic is long, but we can summarize it in specific points

First, weapon development is the central matter in the progress of the brigades’ work and development

The first start in the weapon work was in late 1991. There was a local curtain-type pistol work, but the attempt was not successful

It was traced at the beginning of the year 1992. Uzi’s work was not completed, and it was exposed to the authorities and controlled, but in the end it began to bear fruit and succeed.

[A.K]