Hezbollah's deadly new weapon against Israel
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Hezbollah’s use of fibre-optic drones that evade electronic jamming is posing a new challenge to Israel, exposing gaps in defence systems and forcing rapid tactical adaptation.
The Israeli military is dealing with a new threat from Hezbollah. It faces small drones controlled by fiber-optic cables the width of dental floss that avoid electronic detection.
Cheap weapons pioneered in the Russia-Ukraine war are being adopted by Iran and its allies.
Hezbollah faces heavy losses in its conflict with Israel but is betting on the Iran war to regain leverage, even as Lebanon grapples with rising casualties, displacement and political tensions.
The Lebanese militant group is attacking Israeli troops with explosive drones controlled by fiber-optic cables, like those commonly used in the war in Ukraine.
The two have an enmity that goes back more than four decades, with outbursts of fighting or outright war punctuated by periods of tense calm.
Immune to jamming and invisible to radar, the low-cost drones are piercing through Israel’s multibillion-dollar systems.
Lebanese army deploys in Beirut’s Dahieh after masked gunmen fire weapons at a Hezbollah funeral, with forces pursuing suspects as supporters shout anti-government slogans.
With the cease-fire fraying and Israel demolishing villages in the south, many Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are putting aside their annoyance with the group and turning to it for protection.
Lebanese authorities warned against sectarian divides taking hold after an animated video depicting Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem as an Angry Bird was released by LBCI.