Drone Infiltration Into Occupied Palestine

Media outlets of the Israeli regime reported on April 2 that an unknown drone infiltrated into the air space of the occupied Palestine. First, the media declared that the drone entered the occupied territories from Lebanon’s soil, but after a few minutes, some Hebrew sources announced that the unknown drone, which infiltrated into the air space of the occupied lands from Syria, was intercepted and shot down in a joint operation conducted by Israeli army’s fighter jets and drones.

No further details have been provided in this respect so far, but certain Israeli sources and analysts, who did not release any document, claimed that the drone was an Iran-made UAV. Up to now, the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Israeli officials have not commented on this issue yet.

The drone infiltration into the occupied territories have occurred in the past, as the resistance movement’s drones infiltrated into the occupied lands over the last years; then, they returned to hangar safe and sound. One of the most significant operations of this kind was a drone operation by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement called Martyr Ayub Operation.

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It seems that following the tracking of the drone by passive radars and the Israelis’ refusal of applying air defense systems, Israel’s drones and fighter jets took off in order to embark on interception and destruction of the drone visually. Perhaps, the drone has carried out its main mission and the continuation of its activity occurred with the ai of identifying blind spots and testing radar and air defense systems of the Israeli regime. The incident might be reiterated in coming days and weeks given the fact that tensions between Israel and Iran.