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Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it had flown a drone over Occupied Palestine on a reconnaissance mission for 40 minutes and it had returned untouched despite attempts to shoot it down, a statement carried by the resistance movement’s Al-Manar TV said.
The occupying regime of Israel’s military said its aerial defenses were triggered and fighter jets scrambled after a radio-controlled aircraft crossed into Occupied Palestine from Lebanon on Friday.
They fired an Iron Dome interceptor missile at the small unmanned aircraft but missed it, the military said.
The infiltration and failed interception attempts triggered air raid sirens across wide swaths of Occupied Palestine’s north.
The military said it also scrambled fighter jets and attack helicopters to deal with the aircraft, but they failed to intercept it.
“A drone was spotted flying from Lebanese territory toward Israel. The drone crossed into our territory and its flight path was tracked by detection systems. Helicopters and fighter jets were activated, an Iron Dome interceptor was fired without a successful intercepting it, and sirens were activated on the home front,” the military said.
“After a few minutes, the drone returned to Lebanon,” the military said.
The military said the unmanned aircraft was a “glider” variety, but did not immediately comment further on the exact model of drone. It was not immediately clear if it had been armed.
The drone infiltration from Lebanon triggered sirens in communities throughout the Galilee and the lower Golan Heights, including the towns of Rosh Pina, Mishmar Hayarden, Kfar Hanasi and others, the military said.
Moments later a second round of sirens was set off by the launching of the Iron Dome interceptor missile at the drone, a military said.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah Sectary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declared that the resistance movement had begun manufacturing its own drones. “We have been producing drones in Lebanon for a long time, and whoever wants to buy them, submit an order,” he said.
“I tell the Israelis that their ‘battle between wars’ has turned the threat into an opportunity for the resistance,” Nasrallah further said. “We now possess the ability to transform our thousands of missiles into precision-guided missiles.”
Lebanon and the occupying regime of Israel are technically in a state of war and the heavily guarded Lebanon border is commonly violated by the Zionist regime’s aircraft. Last month, Nasrallah said that Lebanon’s ability to shoot down Israeli drones had halted regular unmanned flights over the border. Zionist officials did not directly comment on the Hezbollah chief’s remarks, but have expressed concerns over the resistance movement’s anti-aircraft capabilities in the past.
“I’m not underestimating Israel, seeing as it still possesses a lot of strength elements, but it is in decline,” Nasrallah said on Wednesday.
The resistance movement, he said, has been scoring victories against the Zionist regime since 1985. “We are facing Israel as an entity that has been weakened and is going downward.”
On Sunday, Israeli troops accidentally opened fire on their own drone near the Lebanese border, after suspecting it was an enemy aircraft.
A top Israeli official warned earlier this week that UAV attacks were likely to increase, saying they were a growing problem worldwide. “It is cheap and easy to carry out attacks with them,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity during a state visit to Bahrain by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Zionist military officials have repeatedly warned of the threat posed by drones, both simple off-the-shelf varieties that can be used for surveillance and more powerful models, some based on Iranian designs, that can be used to carry out complex attacks.
