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In apparent deepest attack of war, drone launched from Lebanon strikes near Nazareth

2024-06-08

[IsraelTimes] IDF says it failed to intercept projectile, investigating why sirens didn’t warn of incoming drone; Hezbollah doesn’t immediately take credit

A drone launched from Leb

...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, likely by the Hezbollah terror group, impacted in an open area in the Jezreel Valley, near Nazareth, in northern Israel on Friday afternoon, the Israeli military said.

It took the Israel Defense Forces eight hours to provide an update on the incident, during which an interceptor missile was launched and sirens had sounded in towns adjacent to Nazareth.

According to the IDF, it carried out a failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
to intercept the drone before the aircraft impacted in an open field, causing no injuries or major damage. Residents of the area reported seeing an Iron Dome missile launch.

Sirens warning of incoming rockets had sounded in Reineh, Kafr Kanna, Mashhad, and Nof HaGalil during the incident, amid fears of falling shrapnel following the interception.

There were no sirens warning of an incoming drone amid the incident.

The IDF said it was investigating why it failed to down the drone and why sirens did not sound.

The incident potentially marked the deepest Hezbollah attack in Israel amid the war, with the projectile hitting an area some 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the border. The previous deepest attack occurred last month, when a Hezbollah drone struck a military facility some 35 kilometers (21 miles) from the Lebanon border.

Hezbollah did not immediately claim responsibility for Friday’s drone.

At the same time as the incident near Nazareth, a second drone struck an area near the border community of Shomera, the military added.

No injuries were caused by either drone.

On Friday evening, the military said two rockets launched from Lebanon struck open areas near Matat, setting off sirens in the border community. Sirens a short while earlier in the Western Galilee warning of a suspected drone infiltration were a false alarm, the IDF said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat......
the IDF said Israeli fighter jets struck a Hezbollah rocket launcher and other infrastructure in southern Lebanon on Friday.

Troops also shelled several locations with artillery and mortars to "remove threats," the military added.

Earlier Friday, the IDF said Israeli fighter jets struck buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Jabal Rezlane, and in the towns of Ramyeh and Kafr Kila overnight.

Hezbollah has named 331 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 62 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.

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