BEIRUT — The leader of the Lebanese militant group and political party Hezbollah declared Thursday that his fighters had assembled and piloted a drone that flew 35 miles into Israel on Saturday.
In a televised, 50-minute speech, Hassan Nasrallah said the drone, which was shot down by Israel forces, had been designed in Iran and assembled by Hezbollah experts in Lebanon. He called the flight an unprecedented achievement in “the history of the resistance."
There was no immediate official reaction from Israel to Nasrallah’s speech, or warnings about the need for a military response against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
