aljazeera.net, The Lebanese resistance group Hizbollah has claimed to have flown a spy plane over northern Israel.
The group also said on Sunday that it would continue such flights “in response to Zionist attacks on Lebanese sovereignty”.
“A Mirsad-1 reconnaissance plane from the Islamic Resistance (the group's armed wing) overflew airspace in northern Palestine (Israel) for the first time at 10:30am (0830 GMT) and overflew a large number of Zionist settlements up to Nahariya, before returning to base safe and sound,” the Shia group said in a statement.
Nahariya lies on the Mediterranean coast several kilometres inside Israel.
Neither Lebanese police nor the UN interim force in Lebanon present in the area were able to confirm or deny the flight.
The Israeli military refused to confirm or deny Hizb Allah's statement. Israeli air force jets regularly violate Lebanese airspace.
Meanwhile, an Israeli unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed down in al-Bayyada area in Naqura near the Israeli-Lebanese borders, a Lebanese security source told Aljazeera's correspondent in Beirut.
“Some resistance fighters have taken the wreckage of the crashed aircraft,” the source said.
