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by bjoli 255 days ago
The reason for that is apparently that you can use baby formula to make rocket candy. Because apparently extracting the lactose from 40kg baby formula is all it takes to make a quassam rocket.

If you can get your hand om 20kg of oxidiser that is. It is all more than ridiculous.

Edit: and Nick Maynard is a national treasure.

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Same for water. I've heard they could electrolyze drinking water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then they could explode the hydrogen using the oxygen as an oxidizer.

Only solution is to cut off all wells and water supplies.

Though different from the rocket fuel, I've read Israel has dumped so much ordinance on Gaza that the Hamas weapons primarily use material from unexploded ordinance as their warheads.