
A Low-Tech Defense: Israeli Soldiers Are Turning to Fishing Nets to Stop Hezbollah Drones
IDF soldiers are improvising ways to protect against Hezbollah’s FPV drones, which can evade electronic jamming, using a low-tech solution: fishing nets.
Israeli public broadcaster KAN News reported Sunday that IDF soldiers have been asking Galilee fisherman to supply them with nets to use as protection against the drones.
While the IDF has been working to produce an effective defense, this low-tech initiative came from IDF soldiers and was not organized by the military, according to the report. Due to their fiber-optic cables, FPV drones can’t be electronically jammed, which means they can infiltrate the IDF’s defenses.
Staff-Sgt. Noam Hamburger was killed over the weekend from one such strike.

“As someone who almost died a few days ago from an explosive drone strike on the building where we were staying in Lebanon, I am ashamed to read such a report, and am forced to admit that it is true,” said Yonatan Shalev, an Israeli politician who is running with Naftali Bennett’s Together Party in the upcoming election.
“I am ashamed that no one here is learning from mistakes, and mainly worried about what will happen in the next round in a few days,” he said.
A Galilee fisherman who gave only his first name, Menahem, told KAN that he was in a position to help procure large amounts of fishing nets for IDF soldiers.
“Kibbutz Ein Gev wants to help,” he declared. “If they want fishing nets, they should contact me, and we will find a solution.”
“This is to save lives and help the IDF,” he added. “The Ein Gev fishermen always do this.”