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...
has deliberately let Israel know of the presence of air defense systems in its possession in 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..., Israeli media reports said.Quoting the commanders of the Israeli army’s operations branch, an Israeli news website said the Iran-backed group had managed to bring the systems into Lebanon through Syria despite Israel’s numerous
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KABOOM!...
s on its arms shipments.
"It is operating these systems in a clear and public manner, and without any concealment as used to happen in the past," the Israeli commanders added.
Separately, a report by an Israeli research center said that Hizbullah now possesses 2,000 drones after having had only 200 Iranian-made drones in 2013.
Israel’s military intelligence meanwhile believes that Hizbullah’s drones can "cover entire Israel."
"The activation of these drones takes place in an automated manner and they can also land on sea before resuming their flights," an Israeli military analyst quoted his country’s military intelligence as saying, adding that Israel "has discovered two Hizbullah drone runways in the Lebanese south."
On February 18, the Israeli military said it fired interceptor missiles and protectively scrambled warplanes after a Hizbullah drone crossed its northern border from Lebanon.
Hizbullah for its part announced that it sent the "Hassan" drone inside Israel for 40 minutes on a "reconnaissance mission that extended along seventy kilometers" inside the occupied territories.
"Despite the enemy's multiple and successive attempts to shoot it down, the 'Hassan' plane returned from the occupied territories safely after it successfully carried out the required mission," Hizbullah said.
Minutes after the Hizbullah announcement, two Israeli fighter jets flying at very low altitude buzzed the Lebanese capital Beirut, jolting residents, rattling windows and setting off some car alarms.
That incident came just a day after Israel shot down what it said was another drone, allegedly from Hizbullah.
Israel and Hizbullah are bitter enemies that fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a stalemate. Israel considers the Iranian-backed Hizbullah to be its greatest immediate threat, possessing an estimated 150,000 rockets and missiles capable of striking anywhere in Israel.
Israel has long expressed concerns that Hizbullah would obtain or develop guided missiles and attack drones.
Last month, Hizbullah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
said his group has been manufacturing military drones in Lebanon for years, and also has the technology to turn thousands of missiles in its possession into precision-guided munitions.