Hariri says Israeli drones in Beirut attempt to stir Middle East tensions

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri is seen at the governmental palace in Beirut, Lebanon October 24, 2017. Picture taken October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said two Israeli drones which crashed in a suburb of Beirut were designed to stir up regional tensions.
One drone fell and second exploded before dawn and caused some damage to a media center in the southern Dahiyeh suburbs.
“The new aggression…constitutes a threat to regional stability and an attempt to push the situation toward further tension,” Hariri said in a statement from his office.
The Israeli military declined to comment.

A spokesman for Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said that Israeli drones that fell in Beirut had certain “targets” which investigations had so far not established.

Hezbollah’s media officer Muhammad Afif told reporters in televised comments that the group’s “position in response to this aggression” would come in the speech of the group’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah later on Sunday.

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