Israel is “working” to provide Ukraine with an early warning system in the event of a missile launch, dealing a serious blow to relations with Russia, reports Business Insider.
Israel’s permanent representative to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said on Wednesday that the Middle Eastern country is “working to provide Ukraine with early warning systems.”
Such systems will help “save the lives of civilians from Russia’s indiscriminate missile and drone attacks,” Erdan said.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry official told Business Insider that the system “is not Iron Dome,” Israel’s most advanced air defense system.
Rather, it would be an “alarm system” that would help “take people to shelter.” It is likely to be very similar to Israel’s Tzeva Adom radar system, a BI spokesman said.
What is Tseva Adom
Tzeva Adom, which means “Code Red” in Hebrew, is an early warning radar system.
The system, originally installed by the Israel Defense Forces in towns around the Gaza Strip in the late 1990s, now covers all of Israel.
Upon detection of a rocket launch, the public notification system is automatically activated at nearby Israeli military bases and in populated areas.
A pre-recorded female voice announces “Tzeva Adom” four times.
This broadcast cycle continues until no more releases are detected.
As of 2014, notifications are also available through an app on iOS and Android devices.
The use of the system in Ukraine will probably involve the deployment of the Israeli military to help the Ukrainians integrate it.
Sending a warning system to Ukraine is a blow to Israel’s relations with Russia
During the last two years, Israel followed the diplomatic path in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
During the first invasion, Israel provided “over 100 metric tons of humanitarian equipment,” Erdan said in a speech to the United Nations.
The field hospital on the border with Ukraine “treated more than 7,000 wounded”, and “hundreds of Ukrainian patients received the best care” in hospitals and rehabilitation centers in Israel.
But Israel did not send military aid or join Western sanctions, in part because it did not want to provoke Russia.
The announcement came as Russia is holding an intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow this weekend. Representatives of Hamas and Islamic Jihad will be welcomed to the Russian capital to help the various Palestinian forces agree on political unification, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mykhailo Bogdanov told the state news agency TASS.
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