On Thursday 25 April, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) coming from Lebanon was shot down by Israeli Air Force at 4-5 miles from the city of Haifa. The Hezbollah were pointed out as main “instigators”, but the group spokesman skirted the issue declaring he had no official information to spread. Five days later, on Tuesday 30 April, the military arm of the “Party of God” officially sent its denial. In a video message, the group leader Hassan Nasrallah, explicitly rejected all charges, asserting that Hezbollah do not miss the courage to bear the responsibility of any action it makes. Moreover, he counter attacked warning Israel against taking any military action in Lebanon: contrariwise Israeli beliefs, Nasrallah declared, Lebanese resistance would create real trouble to Israeli army, determined to defend Lebanon from any external aggression. 

Haifa city (Israel) Thursday, 25 April 2013: around 1:00 pm IDF (Israel Defense Forces) radars revealed the presence of a drone coming from Lebanon – the exactly source is still unknown – penetrated into the national airspace and apparently heading south. As later confirmed by IDF spokesman Brig-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, two fighter aircrafts F-16 take off, intercept and destroy the drone at 1:40 pm, at 4-5 miles from the sea-coast while it was flying at an altitude of around 6000 feet.