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Hezbollah’s new drones scare Israel. The fear is that the lethal threat that has fallen into the hands of Shiite militias will expand its range of action and begin to strike the large cities of central Israel. Where, between skyscrapers and a large population, it would be an even more disaster than in the Galilee. «Six weeks ago I was in Lebanon and they showed me one of these drones: they have an optical fiber and an RPG warhead. I said that this is a strategic threat to the state. It is a global plague, as we see in Ukraine and Russia. We have gathered the best minds to find solutions,” said Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a conference in the Jordan Valley.
From where he also launched his new objective on Gaza: «Today we control 60 percent of the Strip. We started from 50 percent, my goal is to reach 70 percent. We must continue to put pressure on Hezbollah, but at the moment we are keeping Hamas cornered,” he said. Just before Israeli fighter jets hit Beirut.
The targeted attack on Beirut: an Iranian militia commander targeted
Since May 6, the day in which an IDF raid killed the commander of the Radwan Force, Hezbollah’s elite unit, Ahmed Ghaleb Balout, not a single Tsahal plane had been seen over the Lebanese capital. On Thursday, interpreting Washington’s approval to intensify fighting against Hezbollah but without bringing down entire buildings in Beirut, the air force launched a “targeted attack,” hitting an apartment in the city’s Shuwayfat neighborhood with the aim of killing Ali al-Husni, commander of the missile force of the Imam Hossein Division, an Iranian militia that operates alongside Hezbollah.
In short, not a building collapsed on itself, which is what Donald Trump does not want to see on TV (as Israeli officials reported to the media in recent days), but a single gutted apartment. In order not to cross the red line of the US administration while negotiations with Tehran are underway, but responding with targeted actions to the pounding of fiber optic drones that pro-Tehran militias have been firing at northern Israel for two weeks.
FPV drones: the new threat that the IDF is struggling to counter
Meanwhile, IDF troops are struggling to counter Hezbollah’s attacks with new technology unmanned aircraft, both in southern Lebanon and in the Galilee close to the border. Where since March 2, the date on which Hezbollah broke the truce and began attacking Israel again in support of Iran following the US-Israel attacks, 24 IDF soldiers were killed. Last during the night between Wednesday and Thursday was Sergeant Rotem Yanai, 20 years old, while she was trying to reach a shelter.
“The difficulty is that FPV (first person view) drones are not traceable, we cannot intercept them electronically like the previous generation of UAVs and we can only identify them by sight”, explains Sarit Zehavi, director of the Alma research center, to ANSA.
The IDF incursions beyond the advanced defense line
Meanwhile, IDF spokeswoman Effie Defrin said in a video that the Israeli army had in recent days conducted incursions beyond its declared “forward defense line”, which delimits the security zone in southern Lebanon. The goal is to push Hezbollah further away from the border and defend the security zone. In the raids of the last few days, says Tsahal, seven important Hezbollah commanders have been eliminated, 135 terrorist targets have been hit in the last 24 hours in Tire and other Lebanese cities. During the ceasefire, Shiite militias fired a thousand bombs at Israel, including 400 explosive drones.