The Israeli army withdrew on Wednesday dawn an MK surveillance drone that had crashed near the border close to the Lebanese town of Mays al-Jabal.
The state-run National News Agency said the craft had fallen amid mysterious circumstances adding that the Lebanese Army carried out security measures alongside the UNIFIL, which in turn had conducted patrols in the region.
The army also issued a communiqué whereby it said that it took the appropriate defensive measures to prevent enemy forces from infiltrating Lebanese territory after an enemy patrol tried to remove parts of an Israeli unmanned drone that had crashed near the Blue Line facing the border town of Mays al-Jabal, on the side of the occupied Palestinian territories.”
The communiqué confirmed that an Israeli soldier had fired gunshots in the air during the operation. Witnesses told the NNA that 11 soldiers had removed the three parts of the drone and then erected the tent at sunset to guard the fuselage all night.
The soldiers were finally able to transport the drone back to Israeli territories at dawn Wednesday.