(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - The Hizbullah spy drone downed by the Israel Defense Forces on the Lebanese border on Tuesday is the fifth within a year. In the past few years there have been almost weekly sightings of drones from Lebanon flying along the border with Israel and in some cases penetrating a few hundred meters southward. The IDF does not elaborate on how it brings down the drones. In August, the IDF downed a drone and was able to view the photographs taken by the device. The drone's handlers are connected to Hizbullah's offensive Radwan Unit, which learned from Russian and Iranian instructors in Syria.
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