Israel has neutralized at least four attempts to smuggle weapons into its territory.
MADRID, Oct. 27 (EUROPA PRESS).- The army of Israel announced this Monday the dismantling of an attempt to smuggle armas across the border with Egypt after the demolition of another drone in the area, without the authorities of the African country having commented for now on what happened.
Thus, he stated in a statement that the military “They identified a drone who entered Israeli territory from the west in an attempt to smuggle armas“. “They located the drone who carried two armas y ammunition“he said, before noting that the materials were delivered to the security forces.
The incident takes place 10 days after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed to have intercepted three other devices in the area and stressed that all of them were part of arms smuggling attempts, without further details on the matter.
In recent months, Israeli authorities announced several weapons seizures after the downing of devices trying to cross the border from Egypt, which add to similar attempts to send weapons to the Gaza Strip during the military offensive launched by Israel following the attacks of October 7, 2023.
Israel ends emergency in the south of the country after ceasefire
The Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, reported that the authorities ended the emergency declared in the south of the country after the ceasefire reached with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and for the first time since the attacks perpetrated on October 7, 2023 by the Palestinian armed group against Israeli territory.
The state of emergency – which allowed crowds to be restricted, among other measures – was imposed after the attacks throughout the country, although it was later withdrawn in the rest of the territory. The new measure will come into force this Tuesday, according to information from the newspaper The Times of Israel.
“I have decided to follow the army’s recommendations and withdraw, for the first time since October 7, this exceptional measure on the southern front,” said Katz, who qualified the decision by expressing that “it is a sample of the new reality in terms of security.”
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That is why he highlighted that this was achieved “thanks to the powerful and determined actions” of the Government during the last two years of “heroic” action by Israeli troops against “the terrorist organization Hamas.”
Since the beginning of the ceasefire, 93 deaths and 337 injuries have been confirmed in the Gaza Strip, in addition to 472 bodies having been recovered from areas from which Israeli troops withdrew.