Journalists take pictures of the 11th-floor building that houses Hezbollah's media office as well as nearby buildings suffered minor damage and broken glass in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. Two Israeli drones crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital overnight without the militants firing on them, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, saying the first fell on the roof of a building housing Hezbollah's media office while the second landed in a plot behind it. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon accuses Israel of drone strikes, “declaration of war”

Lebanon’s President says Israel’s use of drones to bomb a Palestinian base in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border amounts to a declaration of war.

The strike came a day after an alleged Israeli drone crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in southern Beirut while another exploded and crashed nearby.

Hezbollah said its explosive experts found that one drone was laden with highly explosive materials, suggesting the aerial vehicles were designed to carry out attacks.

One drone was initially thought to be a reconnaissance drone.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun told the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, that the attacks violate a UN Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

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