BEIRUT (Dispatches) --
Hezbollah officials say an unmanned aerial vehicle that flew over occupied Palestinian territories for 40 minutes, beating Israel’s much-hyped Iron Dome missile system and its F-35 fleet and helicopter gunships, is merely a small part of the Lebanese resistance movement’s capabilities.
Muhammad Ra’ad, the president of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc in the Lebanese parliament, said Hezbollah’s deterrent power has struck horror in the heart of the Zionist regime.
In a statement on Friday, Hezbollah said Hezbollah group said it launched Hassan on a reconnaissance mission that triggered air raid sirens in the occupied territories, sending settlers into bomb shelters. The Israeli air force tweeted that “Iron Dome interceptors were launched” and fighter jets and combat helicopters scrambled to intercept the drone, but to no avail.
Lebanon and the occupying regime of Israel are technically in a state of war and drones have become a regular feature of their confrontations.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah has started to manufacture drones “for a long time”.
“Whoever wants to buy them can place an order,” he said, also revealing that “it is no secret to the Israelis... that we have the capacity to transform our missiles into precision missiles”.
MP Ra’ad hailed Hassan as one of Hezbollah’s outstanding military achievements which will prevent Israel from staging attacks against Lebanon.
“The drone is merely a small part of weapons produced by the resistance group to protect Lebanon against the Zionist enemy.”
Hezbollah, the MP said, defends the entire Lebanon and is standing by the Lebanese people in the face a financial and economic crisis in the Arab country.
Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, the deputy head of the executive council of Hezbollah, said Hassan has deeply shocked the Israeli military. The Israeli army is now forced to face the ultimate humiliation, he added.
“The aircraft has conveyed a very, very important message to the Israeli enemy, which has been well received,” Qaouk said at a ceremony in the southern Lebanese village of Aitit on Sunday.
He said the resistance movement is now at the apex of preparedness, and that no one can threaten it by any means.

“Equations have changed as Hezbollah pulls off victories. Once it was the Israeli drones that regularly violated Lebanon’s airspace, now it is the Lebanese drones that are buzzing over Israeli-occupied lands,” the senior Hezbollah official said.
“Zionists are drowning in the sea of panic and fear as their army has failed to guard them,” Sheikh Qaouk added.