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Israeli military shoots down unmanned aircraft

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    Drones suspected to be from Hezbollah

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The Israeli government is now reporting it's trying to -- important point the source of the drone.

That flew over the country on Saturday.

Israel's air force is said to have shot down that drone in the military reports it -- was not carrying any explosives.

There's no official word on the drones origin but security experts are pointing the finger at his ball up.

That's the terror group with strong roots in southern Lebanon and the backing of Iran.

And in fact witnesses say Israeli warplanes flew low over southern Lebanon on Sunday in an apparent show of force.

The fox -- -- correspondent Jonathan Hunt is what this wide it was really officials think his bola is responsible for.

This couple of things -- festival tracking the flight -- according to Israeli media military officials in that country up pretty confident that this -- took off.

South of Sidon the coastal city in Lebanon then flew south over the Mediterranean.

Took a left turn came in over the Gaza Strip.

Before heading in over the southern Israeli desert where it was brought down and secondly they point -- That Hezbollah has a history with -- they launched one.

-- -- in the war between that Hezbollah and Israel back in 2006.

That one -- successfully there was a less successful launch a couple of years before that -- for a reason Israeli military officials believe.

That -- Hezbollah may have been flying this -- On behalf of that allies Iran.

Trying to get reconnaissance information on -- nuclear facility in southern Israel and with his -- as the target Iran weighing in today yet a member of the revolutionary -- senior commander in the -- -- in fact saying that what this incident shows.

Is that Israel's air defense is it don't work in particular the so called.

-- in -- system that Israeli officials -- point out that's a missile defense system not a -- Flying -- defense system they'll also point to that video they released showing how they destroyed the drone that when they felt like it.

Iran did not comment on its involvement or -- why he's in the building.

And launching all of this -- but it is worth remembering.

That a US drone crash in Iran last year the Iranians -- the time made no secret of their intentions.

Of using it using the technology from that -- to -- try to build one themselves.

Israel officials obviously looking at it very closely and they are likely to know pretty quickly whether or not Iran was behind this Jonathan Hunt thank you -- --

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