Direct proof of use
The M325 appears in the public record of the 2023 Israel-Hamas War through two kinds of source-backed evidence. Al-Estiklal, citing the Explosives Engineering Department at the Ministry of Interior in Gaza, reported that Israeli armored forces deployed M325 tank shells in Gaza and described them as high-explosive multi-purpose projectiles used against homes near the border.
The Open Source Munitions Portal separately catalogued OSMP 1574 as a 120 mm tank-gun projectile with tentative model M325, dated October 16, 2023, in its Israel and Gaza 2023-2026 collection. OSMP classifies the item as an undelivered, unfunctioned, whole, unguided surface-to-surface munition, so that record supports model-specific presence in the war archive rather than a specific fired strike.
Sources: Al-Estiklal Gaza Weapons Reporting, OSMP M325 Israel Record, OSMP Israel and Gaza Collection
Timeline
The dated model-specific OSMP record is from October 16, 2023, during the opening phase of the war and before Israel's late-October ground invasion of Gaza. OSMP lists the projectile under the Israel and Gaza collection, which covers images from Israel and the Gaza Strip from October 2023 onward and includes munitions allegedly deployed by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups.
Al-Estiklal later grouped the M325 with other tank, mortar, artillery, and guided munitions it said had been used during the Israeli assault on Gaza. Its M325 passage attributed the claim to Gaza explosives-engineering officials and tied the munition to Israeli armored-corps shelling, but it did not provide a date-by-date incident list for individual M325 firings.
Sources: OSMP M325 Israel Record, OSMP Israel and Gaza Collection, Al-Estiklal Gaza Weapons Reporting
Narrative
In this conflict record, the M325 is an Israeli-side tank munition rather than a transferred or captured system. Elbit Systems describes the M325 as a 120 mm HEAT-MP-T cartridge for NATO 120 mm L44 and L55 smoothbore guns and lists Merkava 3 and Merkava 4 among the approved tank platforms, matching the Israeli armored-force context in Gaza.
The strongest direct-use assertion is the Al-Estiklal report that Israeli armored units deployed M325 shells in Gaza. The OSMP record adds independent model-specific documentation, but its own condition tags indicate a whole, unfunctioned projectile; it should not be read as proof that OSMP documented that exact projectile after impact.
Taken together, the sources support a narrow conflict-use entry: Israeli forces are reported to have used M325 120 mm tank projectiles in the Gaza theater, and an M325 projectile was separately catalogued in the Israel and Gaza 2023-2026 munition collection. Public sources reviewed here do not identify a complete incident log of M325 firing locations, tank crews, target sets, or round counts.
Sources: Al-Estiklal Gaza Weapons Reporting, OSMP M325 Israel Record, Elbit Systems Land Tank Ammunition Portfolio
