After two months of ground clashes in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah has continued to inflict losses on the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Besides the fierce resistance, which Hezbollah fighters have demonstrated in their ground clashes with Israeli troops, the group has dealt heavy blows to the IOF with its Kimikaze First-Person View (FPV) drones.
The use of these drones has a strategic importance for Hezbollah, and constitute a real challenge to the Israeli military because of their low cost, agility, maneuverability, and being hard to intercept. They are also equipped with a fiber-optic cable, which makes them immune to traditional radio frequency (RF) jamming.
The Kamikaze drone attacks have emerged effective after killing at least three Israeli soldiers, and wounding 15 others in recent days, in southern Lebanon.
Netanyahu orders “special project” to counter Hezbollah’s drone attacks threat
Following over two and a half years of continued aggression on Lebanon with the ostensible goal of destroying Hezbollah’s capabilities, Netanyahu’s government does not seem to have achieved anything but killing thousands of people in Lebanon.
To cover up its security and military failures, Israel has resorted to targeting densely populated residential areas, hoping that it would deter Hezbollah.
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The latest loitering drone attacks have exposed more deficiencies in Tel Aviv’s advanced military capabilities. The Israeli Air Force admitted on Friday, May 1, its inability to “hermetically stop” these attacks.
To counter their growing threat, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a “special project” to be implemented.
This project seems to be based on expanding Israel’s military operation in the Arab country, although US President Donald Trump reportedly asked Netanyahu to “only take surgical military action in Lebanon” in order to maintain the shaky ceasefire.
“I told Netanyahu he has got to do it more surgically. Not knock down buildings. He can’t do it. It is too terrible and makes Israel look bad.” Axios cited Trump as saying.
The expansion of the operation has apparently begun in the late hours of Friday, after IOF Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, instructed the Northern Command and the Israel Air Force to strike the production and supply chain of the FPV drones, including areas deep inside Lebanon, according to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
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