Israeli drones violate Lebanese airspace, buzz over Beirut, southern suburbs

Lebanon says Israeli reconnaissance aircraft have entered the country’s airspace and flown over the capital Beirut and its southern suburbs in flagrant violation of a UN Security Council resolution.

The state-run National News Agency reported that the aircraft circled over Beirut and Dahiyeh neighborhood at medium altitude throughout Sunday night and into early Monday.

Many Beirut residents then took to Twitter to voice their irritation. They also questioned the Tel Aviv regime’s priorities, at a time when Israeli medical officials are battling to keep the new coronavirus under control in the occupied territories.

Over 11,200 people have contracted the virus in the Occupied Palestine and 110 have died, according to a running count by worldometers.info.

Israel violates Lebanon's airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes. 

On August 24 last year, two Israeli drones crashed in the southern neighborhood of Beirut.

Hezbollah said at the time that the first drone had fallen on a building housing Hezbollah’s media office in Dahiyeh suburb.

The second drone, which appeared to have been sent by Israel to search for the first one, had crashed in an empty plot nearby after exploding in the air, it added.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the following day that his fellow fighters will counter any further violation of Lebanese airspace by Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles, warning the Tel Aviv regime to immediately cease such breaches. 

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