In Lebanon, three Hezbollah fighters were killed on Monday June 3 by Israeli air attacks in the south of the country. The Shiite party announced that it had responded to the death of its men by launching a squadron of drones against the headquarters of the Galilee division of the Israeli army.
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With our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh
The attack carried out on Monday June 3 using a squadron of drones confirms a trend observed over the last three days relating to the systematic deployment by Hezbollah on the battlefield of this type of device. On Sunday, two drones loaded with explosives struck the Golan Heights, occupied and annexed by Israel, causing a fire.
Since the beginning of May, Hezbollah has launched just under a hundred drones of various types towards Israeli territory, according to Lebanese security sources. This new parameter in the ongoing confrontation on the Lebanese-Israeli front shows that Hassan Nasrallah’s party has an effective air force, capable of striking targets in Israel.
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Hezbollah uses three types of drones: reconnaissance aircraft for information collection, attack craft equipped with missiles, and suicide drones loaded with explosives. The Shiite party also shot down an Israeli Hermès 900 drone on Saturday using a surface-to-air missile over southern Lebanon, the fourth since October 8.
These developments constitute a major escalation in the ongoing war on the Lebanese-Israeli border. They show that the Israeli army, which still has broad air superiority, no longer has a monopoly on air combat with Hezbollah.
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