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Jan 27, 2025

Israel Sends Ukraine Captured Hamas, Hezbollah Weapons, Retaliating Vs Russia

Israel held off criticizing Russia as well as refusing to overtly aid Ukraine after the Russians invaded in return for what they thought was Russian forebearance in assisting attacks on Israel. 

But then when Hamas invaded Israel in October 2023, it became apparent that they had been armed by Russia. And when Israel launched attacks on Hezbollah in 2024, they found the same Russian military supplies. Actions have consequences. JL

Defense Express reports:

Tracking services recorded flights of American aircraft between the Hatzerim air base in Israel and Rzeszow in Poland, a key logistical hub for transferring military provisions to Ukraine. (Reports indicate) the Israeli government has greenlighted the transfer of weapons captured from Hamas and Hezbollah to Ukraine. It's political "revenge" on Russia which supplied those arms to terrorists in the first place and after officially welcoming Hezbollah leaders in Moscow, as well as forming close ties with Iran. Disposal of thousands of military equipment items requires spending a hefty sum of money, whereas sending them as they are to the Ukrainian forces offers a much simpler solution.

Despite firmly holding to its neutrality about the ongoing war between Ukraine and russia and refusing to give its weapons to Ukraine, neither on its own nor by allowing third countries to hand Israeli-made weapons over, quite possibly there's been a policy shift in this regard lately.

Flight tracking services recorded flights of American aircraft between the Hatzerim air base in Israel and Rzeszow in Poland, a key logistical hub for transferring military provisions to Ukraine. While the purpose of these flights remains unconfirmed, there's been a lobby at the Israeli government level to greenlight the transfer of weapons captured from Hamas and Hezbollah to Ukraine.


Defense Express analysts note this possibility as a pragmatic decision on the part of Israeli authorities because disposal of thousands of military equipment items requires spending a hefty sum of money, whereas sending them as they are to the Ukrainian forces offers a much simpler solution.

Besides, it's a political "revenge" on the russian federation which had supplied much of those arms to terrorists in the first place. It's also a slap in the Kremlin's face after they had officially welcomed Hezbollah leaders in Moscow, and is currently closing ties with iran, a strategic enemy of Israel.

 

As a matter of fact, russian and iranian weapons are prevalent in the arsenals of Hamas and Hezbollah, as evidenced in the videos released by the IDF featuring caches of captured guns, explosives, vehicles, etc. For instance, during the operation in southern Lebanon alone, more than 85,000 items of Hezbollah weaponry were taken as trophies.

The video above shows, among other things, towed artillery rocket launchers, pickup trucks with anti-aircraft guns or large-caliber machine guns, anti-tank missiles and propelled grenades, mortars, a plethora of small arms and ammunition for them. Quite illustrative about the amount of captured goods is the fact that the IDF even considered adopting russian Kornet and iranian Almas ATGMs into service in November 2024.

Many of those items are familiar to the Ukrainian Defense Forces or have similar analogs, so handing them over should pose no problem. Moreover, some of these items were found completely unused, in factory packaging.

Even several tanks were seized during a recent operation in Syria, alongside 3,300 other weapons, according to an IDF report.

A transfer of these weapons is currently the most feasible explanation to the recent aircraft flights to eastern Poland, The Telegraph agrees in an article published January 26th. According to reports, the diplomats from Ukraine met with Israeli officials, particularly Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sharren Haskel.

While other media go as far as to assume the possibility of Israel handing over a Patriot air defense system with the help of the United States, at this point, Jerusalem will more likely stick to sending only light weapons for now.

1 comments:

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