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Thursday, October 31, 2019
Hezbollah claims responsibility for firing at Israeli drone
Hezbollah is taking responsibility for firing an anti-aircraft missile at an Israeli drone earlier today, saying it forced the UAV to retreat from Lebanese airspace.
“Fighters of the Islamic resistance confronted a hostile drone in southern Lebanon’s skies with the appropriate weapons and forced it to leave [the area],” Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television network reports.
Initial reports in Lebanese media said that an Israeli spy drone was shot down over the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold.
But in a statement, the IDF said an anti-aircraft missile was “launched over Lebanese territory” toward the drone, but the aircraft was not hit.