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The Wadi al-Haramiya sniper attack was a Palestinian sniper attack against Israeli soldiers and civilians on March 3, 2002. A lone Palestinian sniper, 22-year-old Tha'ir Kayid Hammad (Arabic: ثائر كايد حمّاد), a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades from the village of Silwad carried out the attack.
Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups codenamed the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, [i] [1] while in Israel they are sometimes referred to as Black Saturday [j] [57] or the Simchat Torah Massacre. [k] [58] Internationally, and commonly in Israel, [59] the attacks are called the October 7 attacks. [60] [61] [62]
The Steyr HS .50 and the Steyr HS .460 are single-shot anti-materiel rifles manufactured by Steyr Mannlicher and chambered in .50 BMG and .460 Steyr, respectively.Unlicensed variants of the HS. 50 include the AM-50 Sayyad produced by Iran, the Golan S-01 produced by Syria and the Al-Ghoul rifle produced by the Al-Qassam Brigades.
Even before the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, various insurgent Palestinian (Palestinian resistance) groups built domestically-produced weapons for attacks against Israel. [ citation needed ] Most of the effort has been in the production of unguided artillery rockets , though Hamas has built its own versions of anti-tank missiles and rocket ...
Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups named the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, [g] [1] while in Israel they are referred to as Black Sabbath [h] [25] or the Simchat Torah Massacre, [i] [26] and internationally as the 7 October attacks. [27] [28] [29] The attacks initiated the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.
The M24 was the primary sniper rifle of the U.S. Army from 1988 until the 2010s but has been replaced by the M2010 and M110, faster-firing semi-automatic sniper rifles with greater range.
The 1990 Temple Mount killings, or the Al Aqsa Massacre, also known as Black Monday, [1] [2] [3] took place in the Al-Aqsa compound on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem at 10:30 am on Monday, October 8, 1990, before Zuhr prayer during the third year of the First Intifada.
In the 1980s, Ronnie Barrett of Tennessee invented the Barrett Model 82, the first sniper rifle to use a .50-caliber heavy machine gun round, as opposed to a military small arms or hunting round ...