Hezbollah shoots down an Israeli Hermes 450 drone

GAZA – Fighters from the resistance movement Hizbullah Lebanon has intercepted and shot down a medium-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) while flying in the sky over the Marjeyoun region in southern Lebanon near the border with the occupied territories .

Hezbollah said in a brief statement that its air defense units targeted a Hermes 450 drone with a surface-to-air missile on Saturday.

He said Israeli warplanes bombed the town of Deir Siriane in the Nabatieh region of Lebanon, where the drone crashed.

The defense group also launched a partial barrage of missiles at Israel’s military assembly centers at the al-Abad military site near the Lebanese border, as well as the illegal settlement of Manara.

In addition, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the settlement of Kiryat Shmona in the northern part of the occupied territory.

Anti-Lebanese fighters also attacked the Israeli settlements of Baram and Maalot Tarshiha with a barrage of rockets, causing damage to the targeted areas.

Reporting from Press TV, Hezbollah said that the operation was carried out as a form of solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, to support their brave and honorable front group, and to protect Lebanon.

On Saturday, the group also fired a salvo of rockets at the northern city of Safed, and targeted the Zvulon military-industrial complex north of Haifa with a barrage of rockets.

The European Union condemned the Israeli attack that endangered a convoy of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and “left several peacekeepers wounded.” ”