The Israeli military said its air bases had been damaged by an Iranian missile attack, but insisted that ‘this does not affect its combat capability’. The army issued another warning after last night’s warning, urging Israeli citizens not to reveal the locations of Iranian rocket launches in order not to ‘help the enemy’.
According to Israeli army radio, the Israeli army announced that its air bases had been damaged in the Iranian rocket attack. The message, which did not specify which base was damaged and to what extent, said that ‘some administrative, maintenance and repair structures were damaged, which will not affect operational activities’.
The Israeli army argued that ‘the combat capabilities of the air force and air defence systems were not affected’ and claimed that Iran’s claim that it had used ‘hypersonic’ missiles in the attack was not true.
Israel’s efforts to hide the damage
On the other hand, the Israeli army today issued a written statement on the X social media platform entitled ‘important message’ for the second time since the ‘do not share images’ warning in the immediate aftermath of the Iranian attack. The statement warned that revealing and documenting (through photos and video) the locations where the rockets fell would create a security vulnerability.
Due to the strict military control and censorship imposed on the press, the Israeli press did not publish any news about the missile sites, while Israeli citizens shared photos and images of the missile sites on social media, as well as images of Israeli soldiers hiding at the time of the missile launches. The statement read: ‘Don’t help the enemy, the responsibility is in our hands, let’s not expose the places where the rockets fell.
