An Israeli drone has crashed in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, the state-run National News Agency and Israel’s army said on Saturday.
The unmanned Israeli spy crashed late Friday between the villages of Baraachit and Beit Yahoun, NNA said.
According to the agency, another Israeli drone later raided the area and fully destroyed the crashed unmanned spy aircraft.
However, two of the missiles it had fired did not explode, prompting a Lebanese military unit to clear the unexploded ordnance, NNA added.
Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers threw a security dragnet around the area of the crash.
The Israeli military said the drone had crashed because of a technical malfunction. "The incident is currently being reviewed. There is no risk of leaked information,” its statement said.
Monday’s crash is the second of an Israeli drone in southern Lebanon this year.
Lebanon regards Israel’s flying of drones in its airspace as a violation of its national sovereignty and both countries regularly accuse each other of breaching the ceasefire agreement that ended the 2006 war between Israel and “Hezbollah.”
On Friday, the Lebanese army said several Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon’s airspace by overflying the country’s villages and towns in the South.
