Israeli spy plane flies over Lebanon

The Israeli military has once again breached Lebanon’s airspace by sending a reconnaissance aircraft into the Lebanese territory to scan the area for two hours.

A statement released by the Lebanese army said on Friday that an Israeli spy drone entered Lebanon’s territory over the southern border town of Naqoura in the early hours of Thursday and flew over nearly most areas in the south, a Press TV correspondent reported.

The Israeli aircraft left the Lebanese airspace after nearly two hours.

Lebanon’s military often reports airspace violations by Israeli aircraft but does not usually open fire on them. The Israeli military says the flights serve surveillance purposes.

The airspace violations, which are reported on an almost daily basis, contravene United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006.

The Lebanese government has submitted documentation to the UN proving that Israel has breached the provisions of the resolution on more than 7,000 occasions by violating Lebanon’s airspace, territorial waters, and border.

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman has submitted an official complaint to the United Nations Security Council over Israeli espionage activities inside Lebanon.

Over the past weeks, the Lebanese Army, acting on an alert coming from the resistance movement of Hezbollah, managed to find and dismantle several Israeli spy systems planted in different locations across the country.

The long-range surveillance devices covered the towns in western, eastern and southern Lebanon, as well as parts of Syria.