The IDF introduced on Thursday that it had held a multi-day drill to defend from a possible sea invasion into Eilat.
Three main parts of the navy: the elite Shayetet 13 naval commandos, submarines, and missile boats have been all concerned within the drill, together with the air drive, the operations command, and the logistics command.
Lots of the eventualities that the IDF educated to defend towards have been ready based mostly on particular intelligence that the IDF gained from a extremely positioned Hezbollah secret naval commander, whom it captured round 16 months in the past.
On the time, Shayetet 13 raided a coastal space in Batroun, south of Tripoli, round 140 kilometers north of Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon, and captured Imad Amhaz.
The army acknowledged that Amhaz was a central operative in Hezbollah’s extremely categorised maritime program and, extra particularly, in Unit 7900, its land-to-sea missile unit.
Throughout interrogation, Amhaz confirmed his senior function within the clandestine Hezbollah naval actions and supplied intelligence on the unit’s construction and aims, comparable to constructing covert operations underneath the guise of civilian cowl to focus on Israeli and worldwide pursuits.
To defend towards invasion eventualities, the navy cooperates with different arms of the IDF to deploy a large intelligence-collection envelope throughout all close by maritime areas, utilizing intelligence parts from above, at sea stage, and underground.
There have been considerations all through 2023-2026 that Israel has been unfold too skinny in accumulating intelligence on sure much less distinguished risk fronts.
The Shayetet 13 commandos additionally practiced quite a lot of boarding and difficult hostile attackers on their modes of transportation in complicated circumstances.
