The Lebanese Hezbollah party announced that its military units launched a reconnaissance drone over Israel for 40 minutes on Friday.
The “Hassan” drone accomplished its mission which covered a distance of 70 kilometers in the north of 1948 Occupied Palestine the group said in a statement issued on Friday evening.
According to the statement the drone returned safely despite all the Israeli measures and attempts to shoot it down after accomplishing the mission successfully.
Israeli military said on the same day that a drone has crossed the Israeli airspace noting that the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has evaded iron dome interceptors.
The Israeli army said it had failed to intercept a drone that breached its airspace from Lebanon.
“It is clear from the preliminary investigation that earlier today a small wireless drone was spotted inside Lebanon flying towards Israeli territory” army spokesman Avichay Adraee tweeted.
“After violating Israeli sovereignty and following it up through monitoring systems helicopters and warplanes were summoned in addition to launching an interceptor missile from the Iron Dome without being able to intercept it” he said.
Adraee added that “after a few minutes the small drone returned to Lebanon.”
Later in the day however; Israeli warplanes launched mock raids over the Lebanese capital Beirut and other Lebanese areas.
