Hassan Al-Somal
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I have heard they are north Korean from the black market or direct purchase. It would be difficult to locally produce those. They do have some Russian style ones too.
I don't see them having much of a use but it shows technical capability to convert Israeli weapons to their use. These are cheap drones though. The actual israeli produced ones have fell in Gaza before and could be used by the military wing of Hamas.
In the battle against Mosul in 2016 and 2017, an Israeli company provided an equipment that jammed these drones to the US military, which in turn provided it to the Iraqi military (https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/06/us-air-force-buys-counter-drone-tech-to-battle-isis/). These counter-drone techs were basically jamming the ISIS drones.
So in essence, those drones have no use to the Palestinian resistance groups - unless they developed the technology that can recognize anti-jamming signals. It is also possible the Palestinian groups developed a similar anti-drone techs, and took down those drones.