Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Friday that its group has shot down an Israeli drone in the south of Lebanon.

Hezbollah did not disclose the kind of weapons it used to strike the drone.

The party’s Al-Manar television station said the armed group had brought down the drone in the Maryamin valley in Lebanon’s South by targeting it with “suitable weapons”.

Israeli army spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said in an Arabic-language tweet: “A short time ago, during routine operation, an army drone fell within Lebanese territory. The incident is being investigated.”

Lebanon and Israel are technically in a state of war.

On August 12, the Israeli army said it had shot down the previous night a drone from Hezbollah that had crossed into Israeli airspace.

The announcement came nearly a week after Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets at Israeli positions, prompting retaliatory shelling.

It also followed a flare-up along the Lebanon-Israel border in early August that saw Israel carry out its first air strikes on Lebanese territory in seven years, and Hezbollah claim direct rocket attack on Israeli territory for the first time since 2019.

In the summer of 2006, Israel and Hezbollah fought a 33-day war that killed 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.

It ended with a UN-backed ceasefire on August 14, 2006 that saw the Lebanese army deploy along border areas.