We checked with naval experts what an operation of this kind entails. Many senior Israeli officials in the field preferred to remain silent. However, a Navy source told Israel Today two more years ago that “the State of Israel knows at any given moment about any vessel on the globe.”
“We know all the movements of ships everywhere in the sea, and we track every suspicious vessel that is important for us to know what it is doing. Because ships move slowly, we have a collection of loads of resources both on land, in the sky and in space, and for any vessel that is interesting.” We build a broad portfolio before it reaches the area and before it enters the IDF’s operational target bank.
A source in the defense establishment told “Israel Today”: “If we are talking about an action film in which, say, Malaysia has to attack another country, or Singapore wants revenge on someone who harmed it, then as soon as it concerns a merchant navy ship, it is a very easy operation.”
“A merchant navy ship is a slow vessel, moving at sea for a very long time, usually even if there is security on the vessel, then in relation to the army and even in relation to a terrorist organization that wants to set off these security forces are completely meaningless because they can not handle “Military force and not for that, they are on board.”
“Therefore, sending a source to attach a mine to her is a very easy operation. The fact that the Iranians easily hit Rami Unger’s ship in the Yemen area, they did so directly or through a terrorist organization, but it was not something unusual for them.”
Navy man, author Col. Mike Elder, is not surprised by the complete silence in the country: “After hitting businessman Rami Unger’s ship, I wondered why Israel is so blatantly silent, and why no Israeli factor is responding. “Usually we are very aggressive with the Iranians and give them red lines, so then it was very strange and suspicious.”
“Now it can be understood that this silence was based on a broader knowledge of the arena and what is happening in the region, and that we are probably also putting in for the Iranians.
“Israel can organize an operation in which it sends a crew of 13 Sixty Squadron mines to a ship, and it can even be done in the destination port or in any parking on the way. Therefore, it will not surprise me even if the flotilla did such a thing while the tankers were in Iran, because overall, as we have seen, Israel operates within Iran itself according to foreign publications. ”
“It is important to note that if the mine was attached while the tankers were sailing, then it is already a more complicated and complex operation that may require more advanced technological tools. But the very ability to hit ships is not a complicated thing.”