Hezbollah: We sent drone into Israel airspace

JERUSALEM Hezbollah acknowledged it sent a drone aircraft into Israeli airspace earlier this week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Lebanese militant group of doing it

The unmanned aircraft was shot down by Israel, but the infiltration marked a rare breach of Israel's airspace. No one took immediate responsibility, but Hezbollah was the leading suspect because of its arsenal of sophisticated Iranian weapons and a history of trying to deploy similar aircraft.

The rare admission Thursday by Hassan Nasrallah raises regional tensions at a sensitive time when the group's backers, Syria and Iran, are under pressure. Reuters reports Nasrallah said the drone was Iranian-made in a televised speech.

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Touring southern Israel earlier Thursday, Netanyahu praised the efforts to prevent land infiltrations from Egypt. He mentioned that Israel has been equally successful "in the air, just like we thwarted the Hezbollah attempt last weekend," his first public statement blaming Hezbollah.

Israel says the drone was not carrying explosives and appeared to be on a reconnaissance mission.

[ftyac]

why are you censoring my comments? i dont have rights on here but anyone who blasts the Jews does?

[ftyac]

If I can ask, not sure if my logic is correct, but if Iran gives these barbarians drones, is there a rational human being who would be dumb enough to believe that they wont also give them a nuclear bomb when they have that capability?

[mary-miami]

It is obvious that muslim terrorists want to hurt the Jewish people, they have admitted it. Israel has a right to defend itself. If Israel wants to go to war in self-defense they are right to do so; however the US should not jump in so quickly, considering our nation just got out of a war that lasted longer than World War 2. If Israel needs our back-up as allies, we should help out but wait till they ask for the help.

[ftyac]

BishopRobme

the Imperialist, Apartheid, Israeli Welfare State

So the only Jew that you like is the dead one hanging in the wall of your church that you kneel and pray to, Bishop?

[America_1st_]

If I had unlimited resources, I would build something to capture those mosquitoes and reverse engineer them. Perhaps a drone that just gets other drones.

[formerlyluvnut]

LMAO. Where did those clowns get drones? Now they ruined their element of surprise.

[FranktheMc]

What's the problem? The U.S. flies drones everywhere.

[opaop44]

Rather interesting that while the drone incident occurs, while 30 rockets are sent from Gaza into Israel, we do not hear a single word of condemnation by the UN, however, when a few Syrian missiles land on Turkey, Nato is willing to defend Turkey, and everyone else is up in arms about the Syrian actions. That does not mean that I support the Syrian Government with its tyrant, but it only shows the double standard that exists when it applies to the State of Israel.

[MichaelMoriarty]

Well, for one, drones are flown over foreign nations all the time. Israel regularly flies military aircraft in the airspace of its neighbors. Or are you now suggesting Israel is a hostile state attacking its neighbors?

The rocket attack was a response to an Israeli attack. If Turkey were treated the same as the occupied territories, the headline would have been that Turkey fired artillery into Syria and the fact that Syria had shelled Turkey would have been buried in paragraph 3. There were many news stories on every major news site about the rocket attacks. It is just hard to get up in arms over Gazans shooting back when they are attacked.

[Spring-Cleaner]

@michaelmoriarty

you are incorrect about the reason for the rocket attack. the israeli attack was in response to gazan attacks against israel. as usual, israel was retaliating, not being preemptive.

@OPAOP44

you are spot on.

[opaop44]

Rather interesting that while the drone incident occurs, while 30 rockets are sent from Gaza into Israel, we do not hear a single word of condemnation by the UN, however, when a few Syrian missiles land on Turkey, Nato is willing to defend Turkey, and everyone else is up in arms about the Syrian actions. That does not mean that I support the Syrian Government with its tyrant, but it only shows the double standard that exists when it applies to the State of Israel.

[retmw1]

Turkey sends troops on UN missions unlike Israel.

[retmw1]

Turkey sends troops on UN missions unlike Israel.

[dustin93sc]

Drones are used for sophisticated spying missions and routine assassination. Israel should use proper vigilance on hostile borders.

[MichaelMoriarty]

Every nation should use vigilance on all of its borders. Were you stating the obvious or attempting to say something more in code?