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New reports say the drone crashes near Beirut damaged an Iranian-made solid-state fuel mixer and destroyed a missile guidance system.
Cairo threatens to abandon its mediation efforts between Israel and Gaza if the coastal enclave continues to fire rockets at the Jewish state.
Speculation abounds as to whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order to brief rival Benny Gantz on current security issues is a sign that the Jewish state is preparing for a major conflict on one or more fronts.
The tension comes after Israel carried out a strike in Syria that killed two members of Hezbollah, with a drone crashing in a Hezbollah-controlled neighborhood in Beirut, which was blamed on Israel.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told officials in Beirut recent Israeli operations in Lebanon and Syria do not “change the rules of the game,” according to Lebanese media reports.
Amid reports of a possible meeting between U.S. and Iranian leaders, former Israeli National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel says suggesting that conditions are ripe for such a meeting is “very dangerous.”
Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that the drone strikes amount to a “declaration of war.”
According to the Israeli military, the men had traveled to Iran to undergo training with unmanned aerial vehicles with the aim of targeting Israeli military installations and national infrastructure.
A combination of skilled personnel and advanced technology is needed to successfully monitor sea traffic and pick out the threats from the innocent vessels.
The move would follow on the heels of Paraguay, which just announced that it would deem the military wings of Hamas and Hezbollah as terror organizations.
The Lebanese terrorist group is responsible for a raging fire that almost reached an Israel Defense Forces’ base and a nearby village.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “the world is increasingly recognizing Hezbollah for what it is—not a defender of Lebanon as it purports to be, but a terrorist organization dedicated to advancing Iran’s malicious agenda.”
