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Israeli arms giant Rafael features Gaza strike in promotional video for kamikaze drone <article data-history-node-id="425670" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-arms-giant-rafael-features-gaza-strike-promotional-video" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-arms-giant-rafael-features-gaza-strike-promotional-video" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli arms giant Rafael features Gaza strike in promotional video for kamikaze drone</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli weapons company Rafael has released a promotional video showing its drone system, Firefly, killing a person in Gaza.</p> <p>The video shows the Firefly kamikaze drone hovering over a neighbourhood, identifying a person walking down the street alone before targeting him.</p> <p>"We mark two years since SPIKE FIREFLY was first operationally deployed-ushering in a new era of precision for the tactical fighting forces," the Rafael said in a post on X. </p> <p>Open-source analyst Anno Nemo geolocated the footage to the Al-Tawam area of northern Gaza.</p> <p>"Based on 2 Google Earth satellite images the video appears to have been taken between 4 June 2024 and 1 December 2024," Anno Nemo said, adding that possible changes are visible in the area on Sentinel satellite imagery from November 2024.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Geolocation of an advertisement posted by Rafael showing a presumed Israeli SPIKE Firefly loitering munition attack on a Palestinian walking in the Al-Tawam neighborhood, North <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a><br> 31.546022, 34.482736<a href="https://t.co/rOoGRuGmWd">https://t.co/rOoGRuGmWd</a> <a href="https://t.co/F4GuN1uf8f">pic.twitter.com/F4GuN1uf8f</a></p> — Anno Nemo (@NemoAnno) <a href="https://twitter.com/NemoAnno/status/1944039550902239455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-arms-giant-rafael-features-gaza-strike-promotional-video