According to the magazine “Between the poles”, the commander of the Israeli Navy, Eli Sharbit, saying that “Hezbollah” Lebanese ship is the best in the world and holds many missiles and secured from drowning.
“The Israeli navy has installed the Iron Dome system on the Saar 5, which protects the gas platforms to respond quickly to Hezbollah threats before the Navy joins four new Saar 6 ships in 2019, which will be equipped with an advanced system,” Sharvit told the magazine. “Very counter rocket and other capabilities to deal with other potential threats to the platforms.”
The commander of the naval base in Ashdod, Yuval Ayalon, said in an article published in the same magazine that the capabilities of elements hostile to the strategic interests of Israel is not limited to rockets, but we can assume in the coming confrontations that we will face threats “under water” Before hostile elements seeking to harm Israel’s power.
According to Ayalon, there is a wide variety of means and capabilities possessed by hostile parties, ranging from “suicide” swimmers to boating boats, deep-diving divers to explosives, small submarines and the laying of mines and improvised explosive devices.
In this context, the newspaper “Haaretz” Israeli, quoting military officials in the Israeli army, that the threats of the Secretary-General of the “Hezbollah”, Hassan Nasrallah, by hitting the gas platforms are no longer merely passing statements, stressing that “Hezbollah” strengthened its capabilities The missile aimed at striking gas platforms in the Israeli territorial waters.
“We do not see Hezbollah doing anything exceptional, just to provoke it. On the other side they understand that any strike on the gas platforms means declaring a third war with Lebanon,” Haaretz quoted an unnamed Israeli officer as saying.