Out of fear of Iran’s possible attack, the Israeli military has recklessly increased use of GPS Jammers to disrupt Iran and Hezbollah’s coming-soon drones and missiles.
Israel’s Jerusalem Post reported this Saturday that in the midst of the possibility that Hezbollah and Iran will launch precision missiles and drones towards Israel, the Israeli army has significantly increased the use of GPS jammers in the Eilat region, on the Jordanian border, and in the northern region near the Lebanese border, a move that has disrupted normal life for Israelis.
Just to give an example of how much careless and abundant has been Israel’s use of this technology, it is worth mentioning that at the end of Netanyahu’s trip to the United States about two weeks ago, FlightRadar 24, a website that shows passenger plane flight data on a map in real-time, wrongly showed that the plane carrying Netanyahu had landed in Beirut due to GPS malfunction carried out by the Israeli military.
Israel is hurting its own people!
It was also announced last week that due to Israel’s fear of Iran’s reaction to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, there were disruptions in Waze, Google Maps and Moovit navigation applications in several cities across Israel.
Since October 7, the Israeli army has carried out preventive disruptions in the routing systems, mainly in its northern and southern regions. Israel says that the purpose of creating these disturbances is “to cause interference in the activity of hostile planes and drones towards Israel, which use GPS systems for navigation.” But as the lives of many Israelis have also been under the effect of these disruptions in recent weeks, what the Israeli military has done so far to prevent outsider attacks seems to have hurt more than it helped.
