Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at the critics following a series of recent air strikes across the Middle East.It comes after reports of strikes against Iranian targets and Iran-backed militias in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.Israel’s military rarely acknowledges operations in Syria, but said on Saturday that it had struck several sites and thwarted an Iranian attack on Israel “using killer drones”.To curb Iranian influence, Israel is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the country erupted into civil war 2011.

On Sunday, two drones that the Lebanese army said were Israeli crashed in the southern Beirut district of Dahia, which is dominated by Hezbollah.One of the drones hit a building that houses Hezbollah’s media office, while the other exploded and crashed nearby, causing material damage.

Israel has not said it carried out these attacks, but Lebanese President Michel Aoun has blamed Israel, saying it was “similar to a declaration of war”.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has also pledged that the group’s fighters would shoot down any drones that entered Lebanese airspace.Meanwhile, in Iraq, paramilitary factions blamed Israel for strikes on Sunday against military sites and weapons depots.