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Gallant: National effort underway to address Hezbollah drones

Israel’s defense minister made the comments during a tour of the IDF base where four soldiers were killed and many others wounded in a UAV strike.

Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits the IDF Golani training base near Binyamina that was hit by a Hezbollah drone strike, Oct. 14, 2024. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits the IDF Golani training base near Binyamina that was hit by a Hezbollah drone strike, Oct. 14, 2024. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry.

On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited the Golani Brigade training base near Binyamina, including the dining hall struck on Sunday night by a Hezbollah drone, pledging to find solutions to the threat posed by the terror group’s unmanned vehicles.

The attack killed four soldiers and wounded dozens more.

“This is a difficult event with painful results,” he told Golani officers who witnessed the attack. “We must investigate it, study the details and assimilate the lessons in a quick and professional manner.”

Gallant continued: “Faced with the threat of UAVs, we are concentrating a national effort and are engaged in developing solutions that will help deal with the threat.”

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