Israeli officials have said during the war in Gaza that Palestinian militant group Hamas used tunnels running under the border into Egypt's Sinai region to smuggle arms. However, Egypt says it destroyed tunnel networks leading to Gaza years ago and created a buffer zone and border fortifications that prevent smuggling.

Drones have been used by Iranian terrorist proxies to attack Israeli targets – but in this case, the mission was different.

Israeli ground forces took control of Gaza’s border with Egypt in late May. At the time, the IDF described the 9-mile Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the frontier, as Hamas’s “lifeline,” through which the terrorist organization smuggled weapons and supplies into Gaza.

The IDF announced it had shot down a drone spotted crossing the Egyptian border into Israeli territory on Wednesday. Troops from the Caracal Battalion shot down the drone. Troops arrived at the location and found four guns,