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Hezbollah has begun unleashing “game changing” waves of “lethal” nighttime drones against Israel, a defense expert warns, with the attacks contributing to casualties, defense breaches and plunging parts of the border region into chaos, according toreports.
Escalating deployments by Hezbollah had also prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to convene anemergency security meetingon May 30 following a surprise Hezbollah strike, amid reports of “utter chaos” as Israeli forces scrambled to respond.
“These nighttime drones are the very small Category 1 and Category 2 drones,” defense expert and“They are generally used by squads on the ground to go andconduct tactical lethal missionsor surveillance missions right in theater immediately.What they are able to do is use thermal sensors to be able to fly at night and use heat signatures to spot IDF troops,” he said.
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Rockets are launched from Lebanon towards Israel amid escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from the Israeli side of the border.(Gil Eliyahu/Reuters)
“Hezbollah now has nighttime capabilities, which is game changing,”Chelladded.
“What you will see is an escalation of the use of drones and theinnovation of asymmetric warfarein that particular area by Hezbollah,” he warned.
Chell’s comments came amidreportsof makeshift defenses with nets being deployed against the backdrop of a significant shift in the conflict.
Israeli soldiers have resorted to buying commercial fishing and soccer nets to entangle the incoming aerial threats, according to reports.
“This means that there is a whole other set of countermeasures that the IDF has to put in place, whether it is electronic jamming, net guns or the use of netting just to put in front of installations or in front of vehicles to try to stop the final impact of the drone if it is a strike drone,” Chell added.
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Smoke rises following a projectile attack amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel near Shlomi in northern Israel on Oct.19, 2024.(Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)
“The IDF will have to change a lot of their tactics regarding their ability to move around and conduct operations at night.Now they will have to factor in the fact that Hezbollah has nighttime capabilities to at least do observation using thermalcameras, as well as strike capabilities.”
Netanyahu called a meeting with top officials following anintense Hezbollah rocket and drone blitzthat caught the military off guard on Saturday.
According to a report byChannel 13, the Israeli army was surprised by the scale of the fire as well as Hezbollah’s decision to shift its operational policy in response to the expansion of Israel’s ground operations beyond the Litani River.
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Hezbollah terrorists holding rifles are shown in this image.A “terrorist network” funded and operated by Hezbollah and Iran was foiled in the United Arab Emirates, according to a report.(Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Reports from the ground described “utter chaos” in parts of the north.While rockets were said to have hit the cities, Hezbollah simultaneously launchedwaves of drone strikes.
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has also touted the militant group’s drone capabilities, calling them an effective weapon against Israeli forces operating near and inside southernLebanon.
Netanyahu has also described Hezbollah’s drone capabilities as a major threat given the difficulty in detecting them.
“Hezbollah have got a supply line orsupply chain of some sortset up,” Chell added before stating that they are not “using stuff that is groundbreaking;this is very old technology and tactics that they are using.”
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“That said, somebody is making the equipment available to Hezbollah — whether it is coming via Iran, China, Russia, Afghanistan or the black market, someone is getting enough product andfeeding it into their supplychains,” Chell warned.
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