BEIRUT- Six Israeli warplanes on Tuesday flew over several regions of Lebanon in violation of a UN Security Council resolution, the Lebanese army said. "At 9:00 am (0700 GMT) two warplanes violated our airspace in the region of Kfar Kila (in the south) and flew over several other parts of the country before leaving at 11:20 am," a statement said. It added that four other planes later in the morning also carried out
flights over various Lebanese regions.

A drone meanwhile flew over Lebanon for much of the night Monday to Tuesday, the statement added. Tension has increased in Lebanon since the Israeli offensive in Gaza began on December 27 with some residents fearing a repeat of the 34-day summer war in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement which devastated the south of the country.

Israeli flights over Lebanon occur on an almost daily basis and are in breach of UN Security Council resolution 1710, which in August 2006 ended the Israel-Hezbollah war. During the 2006 war, Hezbollah fired around 4,000 rockets towards Israel. More than 1,200 Lebanese people, mostly civilians, died in the war, which killed 160 Israelis, mostly from the military.