{"id":93902,"date":"2026-05-02T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93902\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:15:08","slug":"hezbollahs-cheap-drones-pose-challenge-for-israel-like-childrens-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93902\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah\u2019s cheap drones pose challenge for Israel \u2013 like \u2018children\u2019s toys\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/hezbollah?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a>\u2019s cheap fibre-optic <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/drones?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drones<\/a> are creating new challenges for Israeli troops in southern <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/lebanon?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon<\/a>, forcing the military to adapt its tactics against an increasingly lethal threat.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Israeli military \u2013 considered one of the most advanced in the world \u2013 has confirmed two soldiers and one civilian contractor killed in explosive drone attacks in under a week, with several others wounded despite a ceasefire in place since mid-April.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The devices are small, cheap and readily available, like \u201cchildren\u2019s toys\u201d, explained Orna Mizrahi, a senior researcher at Israel\u2019s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The military \u201cdoes not have nowadays any response for that, because they didn\u2019t prepare themselves for such low-tech explosives\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a> has been fighting Lebanese Hezbollah since early March, deploying troops into the neighbouring country\u2019s south to confront the Iran-backed militant group.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since then, violence has continued, with both sides accusing each other of breaching the ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hezbollah\u2019s cheap fibre-optic drones are creating new challenges for Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, forcing the military to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[100,34,1754,37,93,56],"class_list":["post-93902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-iron-beam","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116503754962884826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}