{"id":226618,"date":"2021-02-02T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T08:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226618"},"modified":"2021-02-04T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:30:18","slug":"lebanons-hezbollah-group-says-it-shot-down-israeli-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226618","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah group says it shot down Israeli drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Philadelphia Inquirer \u2013 Feb 1, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_102942\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel-long-range-Heron-Drone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102942\" class=\"wp-image-102942 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel-long-range-Heron-Drone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IDF long-range surveillance Heron drone.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BEIRUT (AP) \u2014 Lebanon\u2019s militant Hezbollah group said its fighters shot down an Israeli drone on Monday over a southern village near the border with Israel. The Israeli military did not confirm the shootdown but said a drone had crashed on Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions in the region have been rising over the past months amid Israeli airstrikes on Iran-backed fighters in neighboring Syria. Hezbollah has also vowed to respond for the killing of one of its fighters in an Israeli strike in Syria last year.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah\u2019s al-Manar TV said the drone was shot down after it entered Lebanon\u2019s air space and crashed in the village of Blida, near the border with Israel. Hezbollah fighters now have the unmanned aircraft, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said the drone was on operational activity along the border before it crashed. &#8220;There is no risk of breach of information,\u201d the military added.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli warplanes and drones violate Lebanon\u2019s airspace almost daily, sometimes to carry out airstrike in neighboring Syria. The frequency of low-flying warplanes over Beirut and other parts of Lebanon has intensified in the past weeks, making residents jittery as tensions run high in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hezbollah fought to a draw in a month-long war in Lebanon in 2006. Hezbollah has in the past claimed downing Israeli drones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/wires\/ap\/lebanons-hezbollah-group-says-it-shot-down-israeli-drone-20210201.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Israeli military authorities admit that they had lost a drone over southern Lebanon, after it crashed, they say that  &#8220;There is no risk of breach of information\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226641,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226618\/revisions\/226641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}