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In the second incident of its kind in two days, the Israeli air defenses on Friday fired at a drone coming from Lebanon, which entered Israel’s airspace, according to the Israeli army. In a statement, the Lebanese Hezbollah said Friday that it had launched the drone on a “reconnaissance” mission over Israel.
The Israeli army said in a statement, Friday, that “a small enemy drone infiltrated from Lebanon into Israeli territory, where alarms were activated in the Galilee region, which prompted the residents to seek shelter in northern Israel,” in the second incident of its kind in two days.
and reported Lebanese Hezbollah In a statement Friday that it had launched the drone on a “reconnaissance” mission over Israel.
FRANCE 24 Correspondent from Beirut
The army added that “interceptor missiles were fired from the Iron Dome system” at the plane, and “planes and helicopters were called, and after a few minutes, the plane disappeared and the incident is under investigation.”
For its part, Hezbollah announced that it launched a march “inside the occupied Palestinian territories, which toured the targeted area for forty minutes on a reconnaissance mission that extended for seventy kilometers.”
He added in a statement that “the plane + Hassan +” returned “safely after it successfully carried out the required mission”, despite the Israeli army’s attempts to “shoot it”.
This evening, Israeli fighters flew at a very low altitude over Beirut, and residents of the capital could see them clearly, while the sound of their roar was heard throughout the city.
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On Thursday, the Israeli army announced that it had “downed a Hezbollah drone that infiltrated Israeli airspace from Lebanon.”
Israeli security sources said in January that the drones that the Hebrew state recently shot down after flying across the border from Lebanon revealed the growing capabilities of Hezbollah’s aerial reconnaissance, which is backed by Iran.
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah said Wednesday that Israel wants to “prevent us from bringing marches from Iran,” noting that it will not succeed in this. “Today, and this is no secret to the Israelis (…) we have the technological ability to convert our missiles into precision missiles,” he added.
“Today in Lebanon, for a long time, we started to manufacture marches,” he added.
The Israeli army, near the border with Lebanon, has an air command center that includes about twenty officers whose mission is to monitor Hezbollah’s drones.
Lebanon and Israel are officially at war. In 2006, Lebanon witnessed a bloody war between Israel and Hezbollah that lasted for 33 days, during which 1,200 people were killed in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.
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