Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement fighters have intercepted and shot down an Israeli medium-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as it was flying in the skies over the Marjeyoun district of southern Lebanon close to the border with the occupied territories.
Hezbollah said in a brief statement that its air defense unit targeted the Hermes 450 drone with a surface-to-air missile on Saturday, Press TV reported.
The statement added that Israeli warplanes bombed Deir Siriane village in Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate where the downed drone fell.
Hezbollah also launched separate barrages of missiles at gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the al-Abad military site near the Lebanese border, as well as in the illegal Manara settlement.
Moreover, the movement claimed responsibility for a rocket attack against the Kiryat Shmona settlements in the northern side of the occupied lands.
The resistance fighters also struck the Israeli settlements of Baram and Maalot Tarshiha with rocket barrages, causing damage at the targeted sites.
Hezbollah stated that the operations were carried out in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in support of their brave and honorable resistance factions, and in defense of Lebanon.
Also on Saturday, the group fired a salvo of rockets at the northern occupied town of Safed, and targeted the Zvulon military industries base north of Haifa with a rocket barrage.
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