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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.