Hezbollah downs Israeli drone over S. Lebanon

BEIRUT, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Hezbollah announced on Saturday that it shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon.

The party said in a statement that its fighters, "after careful monitoring and follow-up, ambushed a Hermes 900 drone that assaulted our people and villages, and they targeted it with appropriate weapons over Lebanese territory, where it was shot down."

A Lebanese military source told Xinhu