Hezbollah downs 2nd advanced Israeli drone in one day

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has shot down a second advanced Israeli drone within the space of single day.

The movement announced bringing down the Hermes 450 drone on Tuesday, saying the aircraft “was seen burning in the skies of occupied Palestine” following the operation.

Earlier in the day, the group had likewise shot down a similar drone over the skies of southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah shoots down Israeli drone over Lebanon, strikes military positions

Hezbollah fighters have shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon, and pounded Israeli military positions in the occupied territories.

The aircraft, which is made by the Israeli regime’s Elbit company, has a flight endurance of over 20 hours and its primary mission is reconnaissance, surveillance, and relaying communications. The drone that has a wingspan of 10.6 meters and weighs 550 kilograms, can, however, also carry up to four missiles for offensive operations.

Also on Tuesday, Hezbollah targeted the Naftali base near the city of Safad, the Israeli artillery position in the Dishon area, and the regime’s Zaoura artillery position in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In southern Lebanon, it struck an Israeli Merkava tank, which was attempting to advance into the outskirts of the town of Ramia, with a guided missile, killing and wounding its occupants, and hit a gathering of Israeli forces in the vicinity of the town of Aita al-Shaab.

The operations came “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people,” the group said.

Hezbollah has launched hundreds of such strikes against the occupied territories since last October, when the regime began bringing Gaza under a genocidal war and intensifying its deadly attacks against Lebanon. The war and the escalation have so far claimed the lives of more than 42,300 Palestinians and upwards of 2,300 Lebanese people.

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As part of the most recent phase of the aggression, the regime attacked the town of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 10 people and wounding 15 others.

It also fired missiles filled with internationally banned cluster bombs against three other areas in the south, besides targeting the town of Riyaq in the country’s east with airstrikes that killed five people, including three children, and injured 16 others.

Hezbollah said the regime’s deployment of the prohibited munitions “underscores the enemy’s blatant failure on the battlefield in direct confrontations with the fighters of the Islamic Resistance.”

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