...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...warning against border incursions
Israeli forces on Thursday downed a small drone that flew over the border from Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces said.
A statement from the IDF said air control units tracked the unmanned aircraft "throughout the incident" before taking it down near the northern town of Zar’it.
It did not specify how the drone was brought down as it entered Israeli airspace; however, it was believed to have been done using electronic warfare means.
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to prevent any attempt to violate Israeli illusory sovereignty," the statement added.
In an image shared by the army, the drone appears to be a commercially available quadcopter manufactured by Chinese company DJI.
Defense officials have previously noted that at least some of the drones the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group uses for surveillance purposes are commercially available devices.
There was no immediate statement from Hezbollah or affiliated media outlets on the drone downing.
Lebanon and Israel are technically in a state of war and the heavily guarded border is commonly penetrated by drones from both sides.
Lebanon regularly complains about Israeli surveillance drones invading its airspace, but the IDF maintains that such incursions are necessary to track the activities of Hezbollah, which the Lebanese government is supposed to keep in check.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military dropped flyers in southern Lebanon warning locals against crossing the border.
Ali Shoeib, who works for the al-Manar Hezbollah mouthpiece, published images of the pamphlets that were distributed near the southern Lebanese village of Kfarchouba.
"Think before you act. Your breaches of the border and your actions make the situation dangerous, and have already resulted in your injury," the flyers read.
The IDF did not publicly comment on the flyers, which appeared to be similar to those distributed by the military in southern Syria in recent years.
During a conference on Monday, the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate warned that Hezbollah’s leader was "close to making a mistake" that could spark a regional war, while warning that a conflict between Israel and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
was becoming increasingly direct.