In Gaza, where every corner has become a target and every breath a gamble, Israel has unveiled yet another weapon of fear—suicide drones. These unmanned machines, small enough to be unseen and deadly enough to wipe out entire families, are now swarming the skies, striking tents, cafés, and crowded streets without warning.

Since mid-April, reports of repeated drone attacks have surged. At least ten suicide drones—some identified as the Israeli-manufactured “Sky Striker”—have struck within days, hitting not military sites, but places of civilian refuge. Analysts see this not as a tactical innovation but a deepening of a long-standing strategy: to treat Gaza as a lab for new warfare, and its people as disposable.

What was once a weapon reserved for precise assassinations is now used indiscriminately. In the labyrinth of Gaza’s densely packed neighbourhoods, drones are not just tools of surveillance—they are psychological weapons designed to sow terror. Their buzz above is a sound of dread, and their silence before impact leaves no chance for escape.

Experts warn that these drones, often guided by artificial intelligence, are capable of tracking individuals through facial recognition and mobile signals. For civilians—already stripped of food, shelter, and safety—there is no hiding from machines designed to hunt.

This is not war. It is extermination by remote control. Israel’s growing use of suicide drones shows a shift from combat to control—where the goal is not to win battles, but to break a people. And in the wreckage, it is not military targets that lie buried, but families who had nowhere left to run.