Hizbullah...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
said on Monday it downed an Israeli drone that breached Lebanese airspace after it flew over the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line border, while Israel acknowledged an unmanned aircraft had crashed.
The Military Media of the Islamic Resistance® issued a statement on Monday saying it "downed an Israeli drone that breached the Lebanese airspace over the outskirts of the town of Blida in south Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...The statement added: "The drone is now in the hands of our fighters."
Israeli army front man Avichay Adraee said in a tweet: "A short while ago, an Israeli army drone fell inside Lebanese territory during operational activity on the border with Lebanon.
"There is no risk of breach of information," he said.
Hizbullah released images of a four-armed drone equipped with what appeared to be a camera.
The announcement came just 10 days after the Israeli army shot down an unmanned aircraft it said had entered its airspace from Lebanon.
In August 2020, Hizbullah also said it downed and seized an Israeli drone that flew into Lebanese airspace. Israel at the time likewise said the drone had "fallen."
Hizbullah had in September 2019 vowed to down Israeli drones overflying Lebanon following an incident a month earlier when two drones packed with explosives targeted Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs.
The Israel Defense Forces confirms that one of its drones fell in Lebanese territory, but refrains from specifying the reason why.
"During operational activities by IDF troops on the Lebanese border, an IDF drone fell in Lebanese territory," the military says.
The IDF says there is no risk of intelligence being taken from the device, which appears to have been a small, off-the-shelf reconnaissance model.