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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israeli media: Yemen's strike is 'October 7 of Israel's Air Defenses'</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">July 20, 2024<br></div>
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Israeli military official details the problems the anti-air systems
could have faced amid the failure to detect Yemen's drone, which struck
Tel Aviv on Thursday.</p><img src="cid:ii_lyuao2ie0" alt="7d077229-7813-4756-b37f-8607a2b3822d.jpg" width="490" height="327"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
People gather at the scene of Yemen's drone strike in Tel Aviv, occupied Palestine, early Friday, July 19, 2024. (<em>AP</em>)
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<p><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-drone-strikes-tel-aviv--yaf-declares-it-hit-zone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yemen's military operation</a> that infiltrated Tel Aviv on Friday was coined an "October 7 of the Israeli Air Defenses," the <em>Calcalist</em> business and economics newspaper reported, citing a senior Israeli military official. </p>
<p>The Yemeni Armed Forces announced Friday a successful drone strike
targeting a significant site in Tel Aviv, occupied Palestine, in
continuation of their operations in support of Gaza.</p>
<p>The operation in question was conducted by the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/extensive-damages-in-tel-aviv-following-drone-hitting-buildi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly developed Yafa drone,</a> Yemeni
Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree declared early
Friday. The drone is named after the Palestinian city occupied by
"Israel" as part of greater Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>The UAV is designed with the specific aim of evading enemy radar and
interception systems, Saree said. The drone reached its target and
achieved its operational objectives.</p>
<p>According to the official, Yemen's success in launching an attack
drone deep into Tel Aviv was a "resounding failure" of the Israeli air
defenses, representing "the end of the era of clean skies" that "Israel"
took pride in for years. </p>
<p>He offered a blend of potential conditions and blows that could
explain how the drone was able to penetrate occupied Palestine's
airspace without any attempt at intercepting it, the primary theory
being "a critical gap in tangible intelligence regarding the likes of
the drone, which allowed it to travel at least 2,000 kilometers without
being intercepted."</p>
<h2>The problem with 'Israel's' air defense systems</h2>
<p><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-military--government-losing-most-public-trust--surve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The air defense system</a>,
according to the official, should have been equipped with an early
trigger that would enable the deployment of ground and air defense
systems to detect and identify the target, and then destroy it using
defensive missiles, helicopters, or military aircraft.</p>
<p>In addition to the lack of such concrete information, “the Air
Force’s defense system had other means that were supposed to help it
detect the approaching threat, such as satellite detection, visual
detection, and radars,” he added, which represents another failure.</p>
<p>He further clarified that the occupation's anti-air systems possess
various visual equipment, many of which remain secret, but were supposed
to aid the interception process when radars fail to detect the threat. </p>
<p>Moreover, the difficulty encountered when trying to obtain an
authentic image of the sky by optical means during the operation could
be related to the fact that the operation was carried out at night,
which poses a challenge to those systems. </p>
<p>The drone's trip was also very lengthy and lasted several hours,
which "misled Israeli systems, following changes in its altitude and
route, until it finally arrived at Tel Aviv from the direction of the
sea," the official noted. </p>
<p>"Israeli aerial superiority is no longer absolute in the absence of
guaranteed protection of Israel's airspace," he said, adding that anyone
who says otherwise is "lost and misled."</p>
<h2>The threat on the northern front </h2>
<p><em>Calcalist</em> quoted the Israeli official as saying that last
night's operation reshuffled the cards in a way that could indicate the
beginning of an age during which settlers, anywhere they may be, could
be exposed to dangers and at risk of a surprise air attack that cannot
be pre-deterred.</p>
<p>In the same context, he said that the Air Force should determine
whether the US forces, located in the Red Sea and the Gulf, detected any
suspicious movements in the region, their nature, and what they had
done about them, and if there were any gaps in coordination to be
addressed, following an investigation into the failure. </p>
<p><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yaf-has-vast-supply-of-uav-used-in-tel-aviv--source-to-al-ma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aside from the Yemeni drones</a>,
there are also complications in detection on the northern front amid
the entry of more advanced drones into battle, which operate on quieter
electric motors, according to the newspaper. </p>
<p>The possible scenarios adopted by the Israeli occupation army and the
security establishment could also indicate that drone strikes on Gush
Dan cities and important strategic installations in "Israel", such as
the electricity infrastructure, “will become an integral part of the
battle if the confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah enters the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-drones-pound-israeli-91st-division-command-hqs-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stage of a comprehensive war</a>,” in addition to daily barrages of thousands of rockets and precision missiles with much greater destructive capabilities.</p>
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