Israel monitors Egyptian military sites for launching ballistic missiles (photos)

The Hebrew website explained that “these images show sites dug deep in the mountains, and that construction operations are ongoing,” stressing that “Egypt is working to enhance its military capabilities in an unprecedented way, through missile arms.”

“Given the absence of a specific declared threat to Egypt, we have no choice but to interpret these military platforms as being to confront a specific threat east of the Suez Canal,” said David Israel, a military analyst on the Hebrew website.

The Israeli website report claimed that “Israel has no reason to worry, because Egypt has two other direct targets that it is planning to launch a military attack against: Ethiopia, whose new dams control Egypt’s main water source, the Nile River, and the Houthis in Yemen, whose attacks on international ships heading to the Red Sea have cost Egypt an estimated 20% of its income from the Suez Canal.”

The Hebrew website pointed out that “Egypt has been obsessed with ballistic missiles since the 1960s, when it recruited German scientists who were said to have been working on the Nazi V2 project, to arm itself for the final battle against Israel.”

On July 23, 1962, “Egypt announced the successful launch of a surface-to-surface missile of the “Qaher” type, and the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced at the time that the new missiles were capable of reaching “southern Beirut.” The Mossad responded at the time with Operation “Damocles,” which targeted German scientists in Egypt and physically eliminated them in several ways, which thwarted the plan to develop the Egyptian missile project.”

The huge Qaher missiles were a regular feature of military parades on trucks, during that era, and in the Six-Day War in 1967, although the missile was operational, the Egyptian army did not fire any surface-to-surface missiles at all towards Tel Aviv.

According to the website, “Towards the end of the Yom Kippur War – the Hebrew name for the October War – on October 22, 1973, and a few hours before the first ceasefire, Egypt announced that Qaher missiles had been fired at the Israeli bridgehead near the Deversoir air base. It turned out that these were three Scud missiles, fired by their Soviet crews without permission from the Egyptian army. The missiles hit a group of Israeli ammunition trucks, killing seven Israeli soldiers.”

Source: “jewishpress”