Hezbollah carried out a “large-scale coordinated attack” on Tuesday using a swarm of drones targeting, at intervals, the same site in northern Israel, just after having launched drones against Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon, injuring two of them, according to the Israeli channel i24News. This is the first time that a coordinated drone attack targeting a single site inside Israeli territory has been identified, and the “largest operation of this type to date”, according to the channel, which does not specify the targeted location. However, she questioned an Israeli soldier who was nearby, suggesting that it could be a military site. An Israeli security source interviewed by the channel speaks of “the most significant drone attack ever carried out against Israel to date”.
The action would have taken place in two phases. First, a simultaneous drone attack was carried out against Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon, injuring two of them, one moderately and the other slightly, as well as against a target located in northern Israel. Two drones were launched at the target, causing a fire, while the Israeli army “tried to intercept some of the drones,” reports the channel. Then, less than an hour later, a second, more powerful wave was launched against the same target inside Israeli territory. According to the Israeli channel, “several drones circled around the site for several minutes, looking for the optimal point of impact.” “I saw two drones hit the target; “five seconds later, we spotted another one hovering between the buildings and looking for people,” said an Israeli soldier.
If Israeli sources do not specify where this multiple attack took place, it could be the serial attacks claimed Tuesday by Hezbollah on the military site of el-Abbad, located opposite Houla (Marjeyoun), on which five kamikaze drones were launched, between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., notably on a drone jamming system. Over the same period, the militia party claimed three shots with the same type of weapons on Israeli positions in South Lebanon, in Naqoura and Bayyada, in the western sector.
An unsettling “ simultaneity” for Israelis
According to an Israeli security source contacted by the i24News channel, this attack raises “concerns” due to the “simultaneity of several drones operating together”. “Even if you manage to intercept two or three, others try to track you,” she says.
Fiber optic “FPV” suicide drones have been used extensively by Hezbollah in recent weeks to attack Israeli troops occupying South Lebanon, modeled on the Iranian-made drones used by the Russian army in the war in Ukraine. They caused casualties in the Israeli ranks, according to Israeli Army Radio. The Israeli General Staff has since been trying to find ways to defend itself against these small, inexpensive and home-made devices, which manage to thwart the Israeli army’s sophisticated electronic jamming and radar systems, worth several million dollars. dollars. Information from Haaretz recently reported the deployment of drones projecting nets falling on the machines used by Hezbollah.
In an apparent new technique aimed at countering drones, life-size mannequins dressed as soldiers inside houses and military positions have been placed by the Israeli army, with the aim of attracting them and diverting them from their targets, according to images circulating on social networks and relayed there. days by Israeli media.
