Netanyahu’s helicopter forced to land as Israeli forces shoot down drone
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/25/israeli-aeroplane-shoots-down-drone
Israel has shot down a drone as it approached the country’s northern coast, the military said. Suspicion immediately fell on Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group.
The incident on Thursday is likely to raise already heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy that battled Israel to a stalemate during a month-long war in 2006.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in northern Israel at the time of the incident, said he viewed the infiltration attempt with “utmost gravity”.
“We will continue to do everything necessary in order to protect the security of the citizens of Israel,” he said.