The Lebanese-based militant organization Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for the surveillance drone that breached Israeli airspace last weekend.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised statement that the militia had “sent a sophisticated reconnaissance drone from Lebanon… [that] hovered over many important locations before it was discovered by the Israeli Air Force,” according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The unmanned aircraft entered Israel from the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday morning. After traveling about 35 miles inland, it was shot down by a team of F-16 jets that had been mobilized from an Israeli Air Force base in

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