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IAF shoots down Gaza drone over southern Israel

No injuries were reported in the incident.

Dec. 19, 2024
A memorial in Gaza on Jan. 31, 2017, for Mohamed Zouari, a Tunisian engineer and drone expert who was murdered in Tunisia in December 2016. Hamas claimed that Israel was responsible for the murder of Zaouari, who was described as a leader of the Islamist movement specializing in the development of drones. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
A memorial in Gaza on Jan. 31, 2017, for Mohamed Zouari, a Tunisian engineer and drone expert who was murdered in Tunisia in December 2016. Hamas claimed that Israel was responsible for the murder of Zaouari, who was described as a leader of the Islamist movement specializing in the development of drones. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
( Dec. 19, 2024 / JNS )

The Israeli Air Force on Thursday morning intercepted a drone over southern Israel launched by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

No injuries were reported in the incident, which triggered air-raid sirens in the areas of Kibbutz Magen and Moshav Ein HaBesor at 11:45 a.m.

Approximately 50 minutes earlier, alarms sounded in Kiryat Shmona and Kibbutz Manara in the Galilee panhandle, which the IDF later said was a false alarm.

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