✸Hezbollah answers overflights with anti-aircraft fire

After the liberation Israeli aircraft continued to violate Lebanese airspace, and from the autumn of 2001 Hezbollah adopted the reply of anti-aircraft fire whose shells fall on the settlements of Galilee, in what was called "popular air defence"; Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in February 2002: "We will keep using the anti-aircraft guns as long as Israeli aircraft penetrate our skies", and the violations receded temporarily.