{"id":326952,"date":"2026-05-13T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326952"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:32:21","slug":"hezbollah-using-fibre-optic-drones-to-evade-israeli-jamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326952","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah using fibre optic drones to evade Israeli jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Middle East Eye \u2013 May 12, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Israeli military is facing difficulties countering First Person View drones used by Hezbollah, according to a report by The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said Hezbollah has been using fibre optic threads tethered to the drones, allowing operators to guide them manually and avoid Israeli electronic jamming systems.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Hezbollah recently released footage showing an FPV drone striking an Iron Dome battery near the northern border on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to southern Lebanon last week, senior Israeli officials reportedly discussed several pilot programmes aimed at improving the detection and interception of FPV drones, though the newspaper said the military was still \u201ctrying to catch up in real time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/hezbollah-using-fibre-optic-drones-evade-israeli-jamming\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hezbollah FPV Drone Flying Inside IDF Base in Northern Israel!\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-mxCI07YrBI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hezbollah FPV drone attacks pressure Israeli forces in Lebanon\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Es2O00yjGDE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah drones are taking a mounting toll of Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles in southern Lebanon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":326530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326954,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326952\/revisions\/326954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/326530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}