Following sirens in Metula and Ghajar, the IDF says a suspicious aerial target fell in an area where its forces are operating in southern Lebanon. The military states the incident is over and that no injuries were reported.
At 22:16 on Friday night, sirens sounded in Metula and Ghajar over a suspected hostile aircraft intrusion. The IDF later reported that a suspicious aerial target had fallen in an area where its forces operate in southern Lebanon, and confirmed the incident was over with no casualties.
This is the latest in a sequence of similar events The Zioneer tracked. At 22:16 on June 12, a siren in Arab al-Aramshe was initially reported; over the next hour the Home Front Command declared the incident over in five Upper Galilee communities, and by 22:16 the IDF said a suspicious aerial target fell near Margaliot with no casualties. Israeli media then reported it was an explosive drone that fell inside an IDF position. The current bulletin adds sirens in Metula and Ghajar to the same night's events.
Such incidents have been reported repeatedly over the past week, as The Zioneer detailed on June 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. In each case, a hostile aerial target or rocket launch from Lebanon fell in southern Lebanon where Israeli forces operate, without crossing into Israel or causing casualties. The alerts were triggered by policy, the IDF said.
It remains unstated what type of aerial target was involved in this latest incident, and whether any interception was attempted.
5 developments
- StrongIDF: Suspicious Aerial Target Identified in North, Incident Concludes Without Casualties
- ConfirmedIDF: Launch from Lebanon falls near forces in southern Lebanon, no casualties
- StrongIDF intercepts suspicious aerial target in southern Lebanon after Shlomi alerts
- StrongIDF: hostile aircraft identified in southern Lebanon after Misgav Am alert, no casualties
Source and signal
- Internal intake