The Israeli army said on Thursday that a Hezbollah drone strike led to the injury of a number of Israeli civilians, hours before the start of a new round of US-brokered talks between the Hebrew state and Lebanon in Washington. He confirmed in a statement that a number of Israelis were injured and taken to hospital to receive treatment after a bomb-laden drone launched by the Hezbollah group fell into Israel near the border with Lebanon. The Israeli army considered what happened as a “flagrant violation” of the ceasefire understandings by Hezbollah.