The Exploits of the Israeli Navy Deserve Greater Attention, and Applause

The exploits of Israel’s air force, that in just forty days of Operation Roaring Lion struck 12,000 sites across Iran, and of its army, that has driven Hamas out of more than half of Gaza, forcing it to the west of the Yellow Line, while killing more than 50,000 of its combatants, and in Lebanon, having killed or maimed (in the “pager caper”) thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, while reducing the terror group’s stock of rockets and missiles by 90%, are well-known. Less well-known, and deserving greater notice, is Israel’s navy. More on its many achievements can be found here: “Israeli Navy hits Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza targets with precision strikes,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, April 16, 2026

The Israel Navy has torn apart enemy forces in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen since 2023, raising Israel’s power in the Middle East to new heights, since most of its rivals have been wiped out militarily.

With over 1,000 naval combat soldiers at sea, logging over 26,000 operational hours in only 47 days of the current war with Iran and Hezbollah, the Navy said on Thursday that it has already undertaken or provided critical intelligence for 154 attacks.

95 of these attacks have been in Iran….

In addition, the Navy has attacked six targets in Gaza, mostly senior terror operatives, during the current war….

According to the Navy, it destroyed 15 out of 21 Syrian naval ships.

These ships all included long-range missiles capable of reaching targets 80-200 kilometers away.

The Navy said that it struck these ships mainly at two bases: Latakia and Tel Baida, and that they were all destroyed within only a few hours.

Next, the Navy said there were complex reasons that could not be disclosed why the other six ships could not be struck….

Could it be because Russian sailors may have been on those six ships, and had they been killed in an Israeli attack, there could be severe repercussions for Israel’s ties with Russia? Or were there possibly Mossad agents on board one or more of those six ships, and their presence would have stayed the Navy’s hand?

All of Hezbollah’s ship-to-ship missiles were destroyed by Israel in just a few months after October 7, 2023.

Further, the Navy revealed that it has mostly destroyed Hezbollah’s Unit 1200, which had a substantial number of underwater drones before 2023.

The Navy said it destroyed nearly all of them within a few hours at a specific location where Hezbollah concealed them, thinking they would be safe….

Hezbollah, thinking it could hide its underwater drones successfully, foolishly placed them together at one site instead of spreading them out among a dozen or more hiding places, making it possible for Israel’s navy to destroy all of those drones in a single attack.

While Y declined to discuss the specifics of the operation against Yemen, the Post and other Hebrew media previously reported on June 10, 2025, that two of Israel’s navy missile boats, one of them a Sa’ar 6, fired two long-range precision missiles from hundreds of kilometers away at the Houthi port in Hodeidah….

The Yemenis were no doubt expecting an Israeli air attack on Hodeidah, and were scanning the skies for signs of planes. But instead, the Navy fired long-range precision missiles from missile boats, missiles that flew close to the land, and completely surprised the Houthis who had been waiting for an aerial attack.

Airplanes fly quickly, drop their bombs, and leave at once. Navy ships can fire their missiles and then remain in the area for a long period, ready to adjust their aim based on satellite photos of the site after the initial attack, and fire again at the target.

The Navy disclosed on Thursday that Hamas had over 300 naval commandos in 2023, and that nearly all of them have been killed or wounded.

Despite that broad success, the Navy admitted that Hamas still has naval commandos and has continued to work to reconstitute that force.

Israeli killed “nearly all” of the 300 Hamas commandos, but not “all.” So how many are still alive? One dozen? Two? And how successful has Hamas been in recruiting new commandos? Given the sky-high mortality rate of the 300 original commandos, one can assume very few people will want to sign up for what is an exceedingly dangerous task.

Israel has five Dolphin-class submarines, They are not nuclear-powered, but do carry missiles with nuclear warheads. I would assume that of the three submarines that recently saw action, one was in the Red Sea facing Yemen, ready to respond to any Houthi attack, another in the Gulf, off the coast of Iran, helping enforce America’s blockade of Iranian ports, and the third, off the coast of southern Lebanon, ready once the latest ceasefire breaks down to fire shot and shell on Hezbollah emplacements in southern Beirut, in the Bekaa Valley, and in the area between the Litani River and the Israel-Lebanon border.

Given all that it has achieved, in inflicting such major damage on Hamas in Gaza, on Hezbollah in Lebanon, on the Houthis in Yemen, as well as lesser damage, so far, on Syria and Iran, one would have thought that Israel’s Navy had not 10,000, but five times that number of personnel. And who knows if, even now, Israeli Navy ships are steaming to the Gulf to help enforce the American blockade of Iranian ports?

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