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Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah downed an Israeli unmanned aircraft on Monday outside a southern Lebanese town after it crossed the border, the movement said in a statement.
The Israeli drone is now in the hands of Hezbollah’s fighters, the Iranian-backed group said.
The Israeli military said one of its drones “fell inside southern Lebanon during routine operations”.
In a statement, it did not say what caused the crash and noted “there is no concern information could be taken from it”.
Hezbollah said they had “confronted” the drone with “appropriate weapons” as it was heading towards the southern Lebanese town of Ramyah and it was brought down on the edge of the town.
Hezbollah and the Israeli army exchanged cross-border fire a week ago after a drone attack in a Hezbollah-controlled Beirut suburb in the fiercest shelling exchange between the two adversaries since the 2006 Lebanon war.
War by remote control: Israel’s enemies Iran and Hezbollah challenge its drone superiority
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had blamed Israel for the drone attack and vowed the group would target Israeli drones that enter Lebanon’s airspace.
Nasrallah said while a flare-up with Israel at the border was over, the episode had launched a “new phase” in which the Iran-backed group no longer had red lines.
Israel had also raised the stakes by accusing Iran of stepping up efforts to provide Hezbollah with precision-guided missile production facilities. Hezbollah denied this.

Hezbollah said it destroyed an Israeli armoured vehicle during the exchange of fire last week, killing and wounding those inside, and it broadcast what it said was footage of two missiles hitting a moving vehicle.
Israel said it had faked soldier injuries to dampen any inclination of Hezbollah to escalate hostilities.
Nasrallah said their attack had marked the first such Hezbollah operation in a long time targeting Israel in positions across the border, not in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa farms.
The latest tension came after Hezbollah, whose forces have fought in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s war, said two of its men were killed in an Israeli strike in Syria late last month.
Israel said its attack in Syria thwarted an Iranian-led drone strike against it.

An alleged Israeli drone crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut last month, landing on the roof of a building that houses Hezbollah’s media office, and another exploded and crashed in a plot behind the building, causing material damage.
Any new war between Israel and Hezbollah would raise the risk of a wider conflict in the Middle East, where Iran has defied US attempts to force it to renegotiate a 2015 nuclear deal it reached with world powers.
At the same time, Israel is alarmed by Iran’s growing influence in the region through militia allies such as Hezbollah in countries such as Syria.
Additional reporting by Associated Press


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Hezbollah says it shot down Israeli drone over Lebanon

This grab from a video released by the media office of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah and broadcast on Al-Manar television on September 2, 2019 reportedly shows footage of the Iran-backed Lebanese group's missile attack against an Israeli military vehicle the day before. Photo: AFP

A handout aerial image released by the Israeli Defence Forces on September 3, 2019 shows what the IDF says is a site dedicated to the manufacture of "precision-guided" missiles belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, near the town of Nabi Chit. - The Israeli army said today it was exposing a site dedicated to the manufacture of "precision-guided" missiles belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon. "The IDF is exposing a facility belonging to Hezbollah... designed to convert and manufacture precision guided missiles," the Israeli army said in a statement. The statement follows the Israeli army's claim last week that Iran was collaborating with Hezbollah to convert "stupid rockets into precision-guided missiles", through a plan to smuggle the required components into Lebanon. The facility near Nabi Chit was established a few years ago by the Lebanese Shiite movement and its ally Tehran, according to the statement. (Photo by - / Israeli Defence Forces / AFP) / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on September 2, 2019 shows a series of grabs from a video released by the media office of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah and broadcast on Al-Manar television reportedly showing footage of the Iran-backed Lebanese group's missile attack against an Israeli military vehicle the day before. - Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV aired footage purporting to show a missile being launched towards a moving armoured vehicle before an explosion sends large clouds of white smoke into the sky. Al-Manar's presenter said two Kornet anti-tank missiles had been fired at the target, 1.5 kilometres (one mile) from the shared frontier betwen Lebanon and Israel. (Photos by - / Hezbollah media office / AFP) / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/ HO/HEZBOLLAH MEDIA OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ==

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned last week that Israeli drones that violated Lebanese airspace in future would be confronted. Photo: EPA

War by remote control: Israel’s enemies Iran and Hezbollah challenge its drone superiority

On Sunday, Iran unveiled what it said was a new reconnaissance and attack drone with a range of more than 1,000km. Photo: EPA

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019 file photo, a picture of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah lies amid other damage inside the Lebanese Hezbollah media office, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The long shadow war between Israel and Iran has burst into the open in recent days, with Israel allegedly striking Iran-linked targets as far away as Iraq and crash-landing two drones in Lebanon. These incidents, along with an air raid in Syria that Israel says thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack, have raised tensions at a particularly fraught time. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019 file photo, Popular Mobilization Forces members try to get a body out of a car after a drone attack near the Qaim border crossing, in Anbar province, Iraq. The long shadow war between Israel and Iran has burst into the open in recent days, with Israel allegedly striking Iran-linked targets as far away as Iraq and crash-landing two drones in Lebanon. These incidents, along with an air raid in Syria that Israel says thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack, have raised tensions at a particularly fraught time. (AP Photo, File)

A handout picture released on October 26, 2016 by the Tasnim news agency show what Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards referred to as "suicide drone" and capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets at sea and on land, in the Iranian capital Tehran. - The new drone is primarily for maritime surveillance and "has not been designed to be armed with missiles," the Tasnim news agency, which is close to the Guards, reported. (Photo by MEGHDAD MADADI / TASNIM NEWS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / TASNIM NEWS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Lebanon blasts Israel ‘aggression’ after two drones crash in Beirut and jets attack Syria targets

Lebanese military intelligence forensic investigators inspect the scene of the crashes. Photo: AFP

A poster of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is seen amid other damage inside the media office in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. Two Israeli drones crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital overnight without the militants firing on them, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, saying the first fell on the roof of a building housing Hezbollah's media office while the second landed in a plot behind it. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese security stand near the site where an Israeli drone was said to have crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, in a southern suburb of Beirut. Photo: AP

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Incident follows an escalation in tensions between the two sides which included fierce exchange of fire



Incident follows an escalation in tensions between the two sides which included fierce exchange of fire.


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Hezbollah says it shot down Israeli drone over Lebanon

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Incident follows an escalation in tensions between the two sides which included fierce exchange of fire