Jonah Fisher
Slow, small and relatively cheap to make, drones have become a deadly headache for Israelis in this year-long war.
Hezbollah’s attack on an army base near Binyamina in northern Israel on Sunday, which killed four men and injured dozens more, was the most damaging drone strike on the country to date.
It’s led to fresh questions about how well equipped Israel’s hugely expensive air defence system is to stop them.
Visiting the damaged army base on Monday morning, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said “significant efforts” were being put into solutions that would prevent future drone attacks.
Some parts of the air defence system work well. Here in northern Israel we hear booms at regular intervals as the Iron Dome intercepts rockets that Hezbollah fires from southern Lebanon. Israel says it hits more than 90% of its targets.
But the Iron Dome works because Hezbollah’s rockets are crude – and it’s possible to calculate where its rockets will go at take-off and then intercept them.
Stopping drones is more complicated. And has in this war become a recurring problem.
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