While it was never officially admitted, several Israeli Defense Force (IDF) elite Special Forces (SF) teams took active yet covert part in the Desert Storm campaign, Persian Gulf, 1991......

......The Israeli SF teams were to deploy at an absolute covert manner, without any interface what so ever with other coalition forces and without any trace that may identify them as Israeli.

Shortly after the U.S. permission was granted few teams from several different SF units were inserted to the area by CH53 transport helicopters and the operation began.......

.......Since the very presence of the Israeli teams in the area was highly classified, no air assets could be called upon for bombardment or support, and insertion/extraction as well supply flights were very complex and long. In one incident an IAF CH53 leading Israeli operators to Iraq was almost shot down by American fighter jets unaware of its identity.