Source (NYT): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/25/world/middleeast/israel-drones-beirut-hezbollah.amp.html
Israel targeted a media station for Hezbollah. No casualties, although glass shattered and injured 3 people in Beirut.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two drones crashed in the southern suburbs of Beirut overnight, and one exploded, blowing out the windows of a media office belonging to Hezbollah, a spokesman for the group said on Sunday.
Hezbollah said the drones belonged to Israel, but the Israeli military declined to comment on Sunday.
The events in Beirut occurred a day after Israeli warplanes struck targets in Syria where, the Israeli military said, Iran had been preparing to attack Israel using explosive-laden "killer drones."
The first appeared to be a surveillance drone and came down on a red-tiled roof extending from a lower floor behind the building, he said. The second drone came less than an hour later and exploded, apparently in midair, near where the first drone had landed. The explosion shattered the building's windows.
Mr. Afif said that Hezbollah had retrieved the first, undamaged drone and the remains of the second, and that the group would analyze them to establish their mission. One theory was that the first drone had crashed and the second had been dispatched to destroy the first. Another theory was that the first drone had been sent to scope out a target for the second drone to attack.
Israel targeted a media station for Hezbollah. No casualties, although glass shattered and injured 3 people in Beirut.
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