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The Israeli military is using so-called suicide drones\u2014highly precise attack drones\u2014in strikes on displacement camps in Gaza that have killed at least 30 Palestinians, including 14 children, according to photos, videos, and eyewitness testimony obtained by Drop Site News.In at least five separate strikes over the past week, including one in Jabaliya refugee camp, one in Beit Lahia, and three on families sheltering in Mawasi Khan Younis, Israel deployed attack drones called SkyStrikers, which are manufactured by Elbit Systems, the largest private defense contractor in Israel. Mawasi Khan Younis is designated as a \u201chumanitarian zone\u201d that the Israeli military has ordered Palestinians in Gaza to displace to yet has nevertheless repeatedly bombed. Photos and video of the drones\u2019 remnants were reviewed and identified by Trevor Ball, a munitions researcher and a former U.S. army explosive ordnance disposal specialist.\u201cOne-way attack drones are effectively missiles, and under most technical definitions they are considered missiles,\u201d Ball said. \u201cEffects-wise, these are pretty similar to the bombs and missiles they were using to strike tents and schools before. The biggest difference is these are loitering munitions, where they can circle a target for a period of time before engaging.\u201dLoitering munitions\u2014also referred to as suicide drones or kamikaze drones\u2014are outfitted with warheads and are designed to hover and locate a target before crashing into it at high speed.According to promotional material from Elbit Systems, the SkyStriker \u201cis a fully autonomous loitering munitions (LM) that can locate, acquire and strike operator designated targets with a 5 or 10 Kg warhead installed inside the fuselage, enabling high-precision performance.\u201d The SkyStriker is powered by an electric engine that \u201coffers a low acoustic signature, allowing covert operations at low altitude.\u201d The Israeli military recently released a separate\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0showing suicide drones striking targets in Gaza.Elbit, which first unveiled the SkyStriker in 2017, highlights the precision capabilities of the drone to \u201cstrike targets with pinpoint accuracy.\u201d The company also points to the relatively low cost of \u201cloitering munitions\u201d for their ability to \u201ccarry out precision attacks without the high costs associated with expensive ammunition like guided missiles and rockets.\u201d A promotional\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0by the company also showcases the SkyStriker\u2019s capabilities, including hitting the exact center of relatively small targets.Under a section titled \u201cMinimizing Collateral Damage,\u201d Elbit states, \u201cThe SkyStriker also has the rare ability to abort missions if necessary. If the situation on the target seems to be changed \u2013 such as the sudden appearance of non-involved civilians \u2013 the operator can command the munition to return to loitering mode before hitting the target, ready to re-engage when conditions are right.\u201d\u201cI’m not sure why we are seeing them now,\u201d Ball said about their use in Gaza. \u201cThey could be wanting to test them in a \u2018real world\u2019 environment, or it could be a change in how they are conducting strikes. It might be more efficient now for them to use these drones compared to other platforms (Hermes\/Apache\/Jet), especially with the smaller geographic areas people in Gaza are allowed by the IDF to occupy.\u201dElbit Systems supplies hundreds of products to the Israeli military, including munitions, drones, guided rocket systems, reconnaissance capabilities and other systems. Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has boosted its earnings, with the company last month reporting stronger quarterly profits, due in part to higher revenues from the war, and expecting continued growth in 2025 amid a spike in global defense spending.The Israeli military did not respond to any specific questions submitted by Drop Site about the attacks.Drop Site News is reader-supported. Consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Upgrade to paid<\/a>April 17: Mawasi Khan YounisOn April 17, a SkyStriker drone smashed into a tent in Mawasi Khan Younis, near Asdaa\u2014once an amusement park in Gaza\u2014killing at least ten members of the Abu al-Rous family, including three women and five children. Footage from the site of the attacks shows the charred remains of a makeshift shelter, built out of corrugated metal and tarp in an open area by the side of a road. The parts of the SkyStriker were clearly visible at the site of the attack.<\/a>Parts of a SkyStriker drone after an attack on April 17 on a tent in Mawasi Khan Younis. (Photo by Mohnad Qeshta)<\/a><\/a>April 19: Mawasi Khan YounisTwo days later, on April 19, five people were killed in an attack by a SkyStriker drone on a tent housing displaced Palestinians near a British field hospital in Mawasi Khan Younis. Those killed included three members of the Abu al-Nida family, two of them women. Clothes, mattresses, and other household goods are visible in the wreckage near the remnants of the drone.<\/a>Parts of a SkyStriker drone after an attack on April 19 on a tent in Mawasi Khan Younis. (Photo by Mohnad Qeshta)<\/a>\u201cThis is the drone that hit us. There was a lot of fire,\u201d Ziad al-Maghrabi, a neighbor who lives in an adjacent tent, told Drop Site, as he pointed to the remains of the SkyStriker. \u201cWhat did we do so that they attack displaced people? They hit us in our tents with a plane like this\u2014hitting people in dilapidated, worn out tents? People who are thirsty and hungry and they hit us with these planes? What\u2019s the reason?\u201dApril 21: Mawasi Khan YounisOn April 21, a SkyStriker drone attack on a tent opposite the Karza cafe in Mawasi Khan Younis killed a married couple, Hassan Abu Zeid and Israa al-Maghari. Footage and photographs of the aftermath show a destroyed tent alongside ripped mattresses and other belongings strewn on the ground. Again, the wreckage of the drone is clearly visible.<\/a>Parts of a SkyStriker drone after an attack on April 21 on a tent in Mawasi Khan Younis. (Photo by Mohnad Qeshta)<\/a><\/a>April 17: Beit LahiaThe Israeli military has also used SkyStriker drones in northern Gaza over the past week.On April 17, a SkyStriker drone struck a tent in Beit Lahia, the northernmost town in Gaza, killing six members of the al-Atal family\u2014a father, mother and their four children. The drone remnants are clearly visible.<\/a>Parts of a SkyStriker drone after an attack on a tent housing a displaced Palestinian family in Beit Lahia on April 17. (Photo by Hasan N. H. Alzaanin\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/a>Wreckage of a tent after a SkyStriker drone in Beit Lahia on April 17. (Photo by Hasan N. H. Alzaanin\/Anadolu via Getty Images)April 17: Jabaliya refugee campIn the early hours of April 17, an attack on a tent in eastern Jabaliya refugee camp killed seven members of the Asaliyah family\u2014a married couple and their five children.\u201cAt around 1:20 a.m., there was a sound like an earthquake in the neighborhood,\u201d a relative of the victims, 27-year-old Ibrahim Asaliyah, told Drop Site. \u201cWe woke up in a panic and went to the tent and found the fire raging. We went in and found them in their beds with body parts scattered everywhere. We started gathering their body parts in nylon bags. \u201dPhotos from the site also show the wreckage of the tent and the remnants of the SkyStriker drone.<\/a>Tawfiq Asaliyah, 17, holding a piece of a SkyStriker drone that killed seven of his relatives in the Jabaliya refugee camp on April 17. (Photo by Mohammed Abu Mhadi)<\/a>The wreckage after an attack by a SkyStriker drone on the Jabaliya refugee camp on April 17 that killed seven members of the Asaliyah family. (Photo by Mohammed Abu Mhadi).<\/a>Parts of a SkyStriker drone that killed seven members of the Asaliyah family in the Jabaliya refugee camp on April 17. (Photo by Mohammed Abu Mhadi)\u201cI was a witness to the entire event. We picked up the suicide drone after it exploded\u2014what appeared to be its wings. It was something terrifying,\u201d Asaliyah said.Another relative, 17-year-old Tawfiq Asaliyah, also woke up to the sound of the explosion and ran to the scene. \u201cThe suicide drone hit my cousin\u2019s tent\u2014we heard the explosion,\u201d he said. \u201cWe knew they were martyred, they were asleep when it happened.\u201d\u201cThese missiles, they call them smart bombs or smart suicide drones,\u201d Ibrahim Asaliyah said. \u201cBut what are these children guilty of? In the end, this is a war of ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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