TYRE, April 11: Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerillas flew an unmanned surveillance drone over northern Israel on Monday, the guerilla group and the Israeli army said. “In response to repeated and continuous enemy violations of Lebanese airspace, the surveillance plane Mersad 1 carried out a reconnaissance mission in the skies of occupied northern Palestine, flying over several Zionist colonies,” a Hezbollah statement said.

The drone flew as far south as Acre on the Israeli coast, the statement said.

Israeli sources said the small aircraft flew for several minutes over Israeli territory and then returned to Lebanon before Israeli aircraft could intercept it.

Witnesses said Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre and a nearby Palestinian refugee camp just after Hezbollah announced the flight.—Reuters