Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah said that it shot down the Israeli Hermes unmanned aerial vehicle with a surface-to-air missile on the night of November 18. This has been reported telegram channel movements.
Formerly Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported About the successful interception of a missile launched from Lebanese territory by the air defense system.
Hezbollah said it shot down the Hermes 450 multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle on Saturday night with a surface-to-air missile fired by its members.
Hezbollah is a militarized Lebanese Shiite (Shiism is a branch of Islam – editor’s note) organization and political party that advocates the establishment of an Islamic state in Lebanon modeled on Iran.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Previously in Israel named Hezbollah’s possible entry into the war was a “fatal mistake”.
Source: Gazeta
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