According to the security source and further to foreign reports, Iran conducts, through its military units and proxies in the region, a combined effort whose purpose is to weaken Israel’s ability to deal, over time, with a multi-arena campaign centered on missile threats and armed roving on the Israeli home front. It does this by pushing weapons and launching various means of attack, from near and far, alongside technological assistance in the establishment of electronic and cyber warfare centers to locate, intercept and disrupt the air defense capabilities that rely on various detection, communication and interception systems. The effort in the northern arena is led by the Iranians through the “Quds Force” and its logistical and technological units. “Knowledge centers” from the force’s aid units are sent to Lebanon to support this effort alongside experts recruited by Iran from among former Hezbollah operatives. One of them is Dr. Ali Muhammad Haderaj, the senior official who was killed in his car on January 20, near the city of Tzur in southern Lebanon, while traveling with a computer engineer he knew from a communications provider near his offices in Beirut.
Haderaj, it was reported in the Arab media, served as the official responsible on behalf of the “Palestine brother-in-law” of the “Quds Force” in Lebanon, for the strengthening and technological assistance provided by Iran to the Palestinian terrorist organizations. His professional “LinkedIn” card, which we located, indicates that he holds a doctorate in electronic engineering from Saint Joseph University in Beirut and in fields related mainly to network traffic, wireless communication and information security products. The LinkedIn account also identifies him as the CEO of “Sybrity” – an information security company based in Beirut. Information security allows access to cyber hacking tools, either through cyber warfare or through electronic warfare.
The intelligence source we spoke with confirmed that Haderaj worked, until his assassination, as part of the “Palestine branch/brother-in-law” (Unit 2500) of the Iranian “Quds Force” in Lebanon, the body responsible for aid to the Palestinian organizations. Haderaj, it turns out, used the experience he had as a former operative in Hezbollah in order to institutionalize the operational relationship between Iran and Hezbollah in the face of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and this to promote technological projects in the field of intelligence and as part of detection and interception operations up to electronic warfare. In addition, he personally led, through his business connections, the procurement of many technological components related to the “hit worlds” in Israel’s air defense system. His elimination now, according to the source, constitutes an injury to the “link” that connects the organizations on a technological level and, as a result, is expected to disrupt the technological-intelligence cooperation between the Shiite axis led by Iran and Hezbollah with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organization.
The air defense systems, led by “Iron Dome” and the Home Front Command’s warning system, constitute a central force multiplier in managing the defense against rocket fire, missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. The air defense system also relies on two central air control units (Mt. Miron and Mitzpe Ramon) and a multi-layered system that includes air defense batteries and the Air Force’s interception squadrons. Integrating all these units alongside additional sub-units allows for the assembly of a full atmospheric picture in real time from the stage of discovery, identification to interception. The IBA, as well as the air defense batteries, do not operate independently and the communication to and from them is a significant and inseparable component of the warning and defense system.
Mount Miron, was recently attacked twice, with the intention of damaging its ability to detect air infiltrations but also its ability to manage air traffic. In the first attempt, the organization used advanced long-range Cornet missiles, using a “direct” formation. In this attempt, a hit was observed and following it, The IDF was prepared to produce a solution to this outline. In the second attempt that happened last week, the organization used “steep trajectory firing” of precision rockets. Hits were also observed in this attempt, but the IDF reported that operational continuity was not affected. Yesterday evening, the Hezbollah organization published new documentation of what it described as a “maneuvering” missile launcher at an Israeli radar at an outpost near Rosh Hankara.
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