Two Hezbollah drones crossed into Israeli territory on Saturday evening — the first such intrusion since the brief round of hostilities with Iran earlier this week, according to Israeli reports. Israel has previously vowed to strike the Dahiyeh neighborhood in Beirut over such breaches, though the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding casts uncertainty over whether that pledge will be fulfilled this time, Moriah Asraf and Doron Kadosh (N13 / Army Radio) report.
The drone incursion occurred Saturday evening, with two Hezbollah unmanned aircraft crossing into Israeli territory, Israeli media reported. It is the first such penetration since the brief military round between Israel and Iran earlier this week.
Israel's declared policy has been to strike the Dahiyeh neighborhood in Beirut — a Hezbollah stronghold — in response to such breaches. However, as The Zioneer reported at 20:28, the timing is complicated by the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding, which Trump said on Saturday will be signed on Sunday. The deal reportedly covers a ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but the two Hebrew-language Telegram sources that reported the drone incursion also cited conflicting accounts of the deal's nuclear provisions: one source said Trump stated the uranium “will be collected and destroyed on a suitable timeline,” while the other source — attributed to Asraf and Kadosh — noted that “there are no agreements regarding the nuclear [program],” and that Trump “does not rule out dilution of uranium on Iranian soil.”
The contradiction over the deal's content is unresolved. The drone incident and the diplomatic developments are proceeding on parallel tracks, with Israel's potential response to the Hezbollah breach remaining an open question.
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