Zionist Regime Loses Air Superiority Over Lebanon

Date: 06 April 2022 - 22:06

News ID: ۱۰۱۳۴۵

TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- A former air force chief has warned that the occupying regime of Israel no longer enjoys air superiority over neighboring Lebanon, citing the shooting down of a number of drones.
The Kan broadcaster reported that the Zionist regime’s intelligence-gathering capabilities had been limited after a decision was made to scale back the number of surveillance flights over Lebanon.
The decision was made in the wake of a drone being shot down over the country by an anti-aircraft missile last year.
Speaking to the broadcaster, Amiram Norkin, outgoing commander of the Israeli air force, said the regime needed to be aware of its limitations, particularly in terms of how it would confront Iran.
“We need to coordinate our plans to the enemies preparations. We need to present what we can do, not only in Iran, in 2022, 2023 and on. But we also need to stand by what we cannot do, because the air force head has a huge responsibility, and based on what answers they give, decisions are made by the leadership,” he said.
“So I only give accurate, reliable answers about what we can do.”
In February, Hassan Nasrallah – secretary general of the Hezbollah resistance movement in Lebanon - said that Israeli flights over Lebanon had been “greatly reduced” as a result of improvements in Hezbollah’s air defenses.
Hezbollah officials also said then 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, was 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 had struck horror in the heart of the Zionist regime.
In a statement then, Hezbollah

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.

Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah had 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.

Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, the deputy head of the executive council of Hezbollah, said Hassan had deeply shocked the Israeli military. The Israeli army is now forced to face the ultimate humiliation, he added.

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.

Nasrallah first threatened to start shooting down Israeli drones in 2019 after two of them exploded in southern Beirut.