Netanyahu confirms India used Israeli weapons against Pakistan

TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that weapons supplied by Tel Aviv were used by India during “Operation Sindoor” — the cross-border military campaign in which New Delhi attacked Pakistani positions under the pretext of targeting “terrorists”.

The four-day confrontation, which erupted after India — without presenting evidence — blamed Pakistan for a deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, saw artillery duels, drone strikes, and air raids exchanged between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

In response to the Indian aggression, Pakistan’s armed forces launched a large-scale retaliatory military action, named “Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos” and targeted several Indian military targets across multiple regions.

In a post on X, Netanyahu said he met the Indian ambassador to Israel, JP Singh, to discuss strengthening “security and economic” cooperation, before addressing senior Indian journalists.

Indian media reported that he acknowledged that Israeli-supplied systems, including Barak-8 surface-to-air missiles and HARPY drones, played a key role in India’s operations.

“The things we provided before worked very well on the field... we develop our weapons in the field and they are battle-tested,” Netanyahu remarked, adding that Israel plans to escalate its military campaign in Gaza.