Israel Uses Reconnaissance Air Balloon to Monitor Lebanese Border Towns
An Israeli reconnaissance air balloon flew on Thursday over the orchards of the southern border towns of Kfarkila and Adaisseh, the state-run National news agency reported.
According to NNA, the air balloon was equipped with developed surveillance cameras and could monitor the areas near the settlement of al-Mtolleh, which overlooks the Lebanese territories.
On Wednesday, Israel said it fired at and hit two members of Hizbullah as they tried to plant a bomb near the Israeli-Syrian border, but Syrian state media accused the Jewish state of targeting its forces.
The incident came just over a week after reports that Israeli warplanes bombarded a Hizbullah position in Jinta on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Hizbullah threatened to retaliate for what was the first reported Israeli air raid on a position of the Shiite party inside Lebanon since the 2006 war between them.
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