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Hezbollah announced it used an air defence missile on Thursday which forced an Israeli jet to retreat from Lebanese airspace, the first time the group acknowledged it had the capacity to target fighter jets. The Lebanese group said in a statement that it fired air defence missiles at Israeli warplanes “which were attacking our skies … forcing them to retreat beyond the border.” Hezbollah did not give further specifications about the anti-aircraft missile, as it usually does when unveiling new weaponry. “We still do not know much about the air defence missile itself, but it will restrain the ab…