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A Palestinian -made explosive device, entered the service at the martyr Brigades Izz al -Din al -Qassam The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitationIn 2005, she developed copies of them, and it is characterized by its high explosive ability and the penetration of shields, until she was described as “a legend of a tank legend Merkava“Israeli and” Merkava “.
The package explodes from zero distance and the largest possible damage is caused by the targeted mechanism. The Al -Qassam Brigades used it effectively while confronting the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip In the aftermath of an operation Al -Aqsa Flood Which was launched by the Palestinian resistance on settlements Gaza cover October 7, 2023.
Facility and manufacturing
The first attempts to manufacture the shores package (meaning flame) began in the military industrialization unit of the Al -Qassam Brigades with the beginning of the Al -Aqsa Intifada (The second Palestinian intifadaWhich erupted on September 28, 2000, and the service package officially entered in 2005.
The battalions quoted the name of the package from the Qur’anic verse from Surat Al -Rahman (sending you from a fire from fire and sensitivity, so do not escape 35). The metal sheet is usually made with copper.
Development
“Shazen” is part of the homemade weapons arsenal developed by the Palestinian resistance through various stages of its struggle, and the battalions have produced 7 models that were distinguished by the varying explosive capabilities.
The first copies began with a weight of approximately 40 kilograms of very explosive materials, while the latest version “Shoha 7” is the most advanced, as it combines lighter weight and the highest destructive power.
“Shoha 7” carries a 3.5 kilograms of explosive materials, and its design depends on a bombing device consisting of a box containing the explosive material, covered with a conical lining. The package is grown from zero behind the tank’s body, and the fighter is removed from a distance using an electrical bombing mechanism.
This package has a high penetration capacity, as it can penetrate iron shields with a thickness of 38 centimeters and 9 explosive fragments, each penetrates about 5 centimeters, which makes them able to penetrate vehicles and tanks very fortified, as well as having the ability to penetrate 200 mm of steel with military vehicles.
Features of shoes
This package is characterized by anti -tanks, military vehicles and individuals, and is used either by planting it on the ground with a distance of 60 centimeters to allow the formation of the explosive wave of the hole in the iron body, or by placing it on the side of the road with no more than a meter from the mechanism to be detonated.
The “Shawah” package is also distinguished by a number of characteristics that make it one of the most prominent weapons that the Palestinian resistance uses to confront the Israeli occupation forces, the most important of which are:
- Light weight and ease of transportation.
- High destructive capacity.
- High capacity to penetrate soldiers, especially type TigerAnd tanks, especially Merkava.
- Ease of manufacturing.
- Lack of costs (a few dozen dollars).
- Short manufacturing time.
- It can be placed anywhere, especially over the buildings and on the sidewalks.
- Its goals are accurate.
Quality operations
“Shoards” showed a high effectiveness in the military confrontations that the Al -Qassam Brigades fought against the occupation army, as it succeeded in penetrating the “Merkava” tank classified among the strongest fighting tanks in the world, and also managed to penetrate the Israeli “tiger” vehicles, which are one of the strongest and most precious soldiers globally.
On July 6, 2006, the Al -Qassam Brigades announced the use of “Shazen” for the first time in the destruction of an Israeli “Merkava” tank in the Al -Israa region (west of the town Lahia House The northern Gaza Strip).
On July 18, 2014, the “Shawah” bombing in an Israeli tank resulted in the injury of 3 soldiers.
On the 24th of the same month, the elite unit in the Al -Qassam Brigades also carried out an attack targeting a group of Israeli mechanisms (east of the town of Al -Qarara), as it detonated two “Shawar” playgrounds, killing 5 Israeli soldiers.
On the same day, the “Shawah” eternity bombing in two military mechanisms in the Kisovim region (central Gaza) killed an Israeli soldier and wounded 3 others seriously.
The Al -Qassam Brigades used “Shoha” on a large scale while confronting the Israeli aggression on Gaza, which started on October 7, 2023, and its first field use was recorded on the 31 of the same month, when Al -Qassam blew an Israeli mechanism after installing “Shazen” on its tower East Olive neighborhood.
In December of the same year, a spokesman for the Al -Qassam Brigades (Abu Ubaidah) revealed that the brigades used this package in multiple axes to confront the incursions of Israeli military forces and mechanisms in different parts of the Palestinian sector.
On November 19, 2024, the Al -Qassam Brigades announced the destruction of the Merkava tank with a shores in Al -Fakhoura (West Jabalia camp) The northern sector. It was also preceded by another tank (East Jabalia) on October 24 of the same year using the same package.
On July 25, 2025, Al -Qassam confirmed the targeting of the Merkava tank again, this time in the south of Khan Yunis.
As for the most prominent operation, it was on June 24, 2025, when one of the Qassam fighters infiltrated the heart of an Israeli military area, and was able to climb over an armored soldier and threw a “shores” packaging inside the cockpit, and at the same time another fighter paste a similar device with a second mechanism, before their withdrawal from the site, and the operation resulted in the killing of 7 Israeli soldiers burning between an officer, and the injury of 17 others.