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299 Queen Street West and the golden era of MuchMusic | SaltWireBEIRUT - Lebanon's Hezbollah said it had used two drones packed with explosives to attack an Israeli army command position in the disputed Shebaa Farms area at the Lebanese-Israeli border on Thursday.
It is the first time Hezbollah has declared carrying out an attack against Israeli forces using such drones, and comes a few days after the Iran-backed group said for the first time it had used a surface-to-air missile against an Israeli drone. In a statement, Hezbollah said the drones filled with"a large quantity of explosives" had attacked the headquarters of the Israeli battalion in the Shebaa Farms area, and they had hit their targets.
Israel has held the Shebaa Farms, a 15-square-mile area of land, since the 1967 Middle East war. Both Syria and Lebanon claim the Shebaa Farms are Lebanese. Hezbollah fighters have been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the Israeli-Lebanese border since the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel went to war on Oct. 7, in the deadliest escalation at the frontier since a 2006 war.
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