Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Indian forces used Israeli-made weapons during Operation Sindoor, a military response launched by India against Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack in May.
Speaking on August 7, Netanyahu said, “The things we provided before worked very well on the field… we develop our weapons in the field and they are battle-tested.” He added, “They worked fine, and we have a pretty solid foundation,” according to a report by NDTV.
The report claimed that between May 7 and May 11, India used Barak-8 missiles—jointly developed by Israel and India’s DRDO—and HARPY drones to counter Pakistani missile strikes.
The HARPY drone is designed to target radar systems by detecting their electromagnetic signals. It can fly long-range missions for up to nine hours and destroy high-value enemy targets from different directions.
The Barak-8 missile system is a long-range air defence weapon that can detect and intercept multiple airborne threats at once. It has a range of up to 100 km and can be used from both land and sea platforms.
On the same day, Netanyahu met with India’s Ambassador to Israel, JP Singh, to discuss stronger cooperation between the two countries in areas such as security and the economy. Netanyahu called the relationship “important” and based on “shared values and interests.”
He also met with senior journalists from India, while Israel’s Consul General in Mumbai, Kobbi Shoshani, publicly supported India’s actions, describing them as “an action of self-defence.”
Israel is currently India’s fourth-largest arms supplier, having sold nearly 2.9 billion dollars’ worth of military equipment in the last ten years. Only Russia, France, and the United States have supplied more. Despite the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the defence partnership between India and Israel remains strong.
