The decision that paved the way for targeted assassinations: the history of the drones attacking in the IDF

After about 20 years, it was announced that the IDF was using the aircraft for operational purposes. Their use began in the second intifada, when the defense establishment requested that "the enemy not hear the noise of helicopters." To the method

Amir Bohbot

20/07/2022

Wednesday, 20 July 2022, 20:20 Updated: 21:15

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Air Force Attack in the Gaza Strip, July 16, 22 (IDF Spokesman)

The IDF has been using unmanned aerial vehicles for operational purposes for more than 20 years, the military censorship announced today (Wednesday). And in various ranges - from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and destinations very far from the country's borders.

The significant advantage of the UAV is the fact that it is unmanned, capable of flying at low altitudes, including the technological means it carries except for the variety of armaments

. "Hamas chief of staff." .

For decades, the IDF overshadowed the very development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles capable of attacking enemy targets. The main problem was that the noise of combat helicopters drove away the wanted persons in real time.

Hermes 900 UAV (Photo: Official Website, Elbit)

At the same hearing, the IDF insisted on keeping the "doomsday weapon against the Syrian tanks" for the Great War, while Dichter insisted that the armed UAVs could greatly assist in the hunt for and eliminate the terrorists.

Sharon ruled that while suicide bombers and buses are exploding throughout Israel, everything must be done to stop terrorism, and therefore the UAVs must be used

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While the defense establishment has cast a full shadow over the use of aircraft, their use for targeted assassinations has provoked criticism in the international arena, including in the United States.

After the twin disaster, the United States began to adopt the policy more vigorously and to operate unarmed armed aircraft around the world.

Not for nothing, the Israeli defense industries have become one of the leading exporters in the world specializing in attacking drones of all kinds.

In March 2018, an unmanned aerial vehicle "Hermes 450", defined as the IDF's "workhorse" in the airspace, crashed in southern Lebanon. Perform a "hunt" for another moving and stationary target including hitting a room window where a wanted person is hiding.

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Heron UAV (Photo: Official Website, AFP)

In 2011, the WikiLeaks website leaked about 250,000 documents confirming that the Air Force used armed and unmanned aircraft for targeted assassinations of terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

The first part of hundreds of thousands of documents was surveyed by Haaretz reporter Anshil Pepper.

A secret telegram sent from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to the State Department in Washington revealed a transcript of a conversation that Chief Military Prosecutor Avichai Mandelblit had in 2010 with the former US Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham.

During the conversation, Mandbelbit

confirmed to the ambassador that the IDF had used the aircraft in at least one case, in which 16 terrorists were killed in Operation Cast Lead.

"Two Hamas fighters stood in front of the mosque, and the result was 16 casualties inside the mosque - because of an open door through which fragments penetrated during prayer."

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