The unusual incident is shaking assessments in the Israeli Air Force. Pilots warn that even without mistakes, the risk exists on every sortie. Israel had prepared for a scenario in which an aircraft goes down in enemy territory, but the implications now are more complex.
A source familiar with the incident tells Israel Hayom that one of the crew members has been found, as rescue teams are working to locate the second one; This represents the first occasion on which an American warplane was destroyed by enemy fire since the onset of hostilities.
A battery commander gathered his troops to warn them about a wave of espionage cases within the corps, as the Israeli Air Force quietly tightened its information security protocols.
Don’t lecture Israel about the “inviolable sovereignty & territorial integrity” of Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza or the “internationally mandated territorial contiguity” of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. These are hackneyed concepts, extinguished by reality in the region.
The army is working to create a security buffer along the northern border, as residents call its disarmament announcement a betrayal of government promises.
