What Happened Two drones crashed under unclear circumstances Aug. 24 in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Hezbollah claims the drones were Israeli; the commercially available aircraft were in fact of the same type that Israel has used before. Whether the drones malfunctioned, were disabled or were intentionally sent to crash remains unclear. Israel has not claimed the drones, but it commonly refuses to acknowledge operations abroad. In an Aug. 25 speech, Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah threatened to retaliate against Israel for the incidents, which he described as the first Israeli attack on Lebanon since the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war there. Nasrallah added that Hezbollah would shoot down any other Israeli aircraft flying over Lebanon in the future. Notably, even Lebanese President Michel Aoun said the incident represented an "act of war.