The Lebanese Hezbollah movement said it underwent and captured an Israeli drone on Saturday that flew over the Blue Line disrupting Israel’s withdrawal from the country.
Hezbollah said its fighters dropped the drone at the city of Aita al-Shaab.
The Israeli army said one of its drones “fell into Lebanese territory” during “operational activity along the Blue Line”.
Israel said last month that it had thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah fighters to penetrate the line.
Hezbollah denied any involvement in the incident, which came after a suspected Israeli missile attack struck positions of Syrian government forces and their allies south of Damascus, killing five.
Hezbollah, whose fighters took Damascus back during the nine-year Syrian civil war, said at the time that one of them was among the dead and he promised to respond.
Lebanon and Israel are still technically at war, and a United Nations military force, UNIFIL, is patrolling the line between the two.
UNIFIL was founded in 1978, after a month of devastating war in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah.
The 10,500-strong force, in coordination with the Lebanese army, is tasked with controlling a ceasefire and Israeli pullout from a demilitarized zone on the border.
Israel accuses Hezbollah of storing weapons at the border to prepare for a new war.
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