{"id":291007,"date":"2026-02-14T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:57:06","slug":"idf-intercepts-weapons-smuggling-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291007\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF intercepts weapons smuggling drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDF observation troops and the Aerial Control Center intercepted a drone<\/a> attempting to smuggle three M-16 rifles into Israel on Friday, the military announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The drone, which was identified as entering Israeli territory from the west, was located by troops and discovered to be carrying rifles.<\/p>\n

The weapons were transferred to security forces for processing, the IDF stated.<\/p>\n

Also on Friday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir visited IDF troops stationed in Rafah during a situational assessment in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

Zamir spoke to soldiers, instructing the troops to keep removing threats present in the area and emphasizing the importance of destroying Hamas\u2019s underground terror tunnel infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IDF is deployed along a security border – the Yellow Line – overseeing the crossings to the Gaza Strip, and is precisely dismantling terror infrastructure in the area,\u201d Zamir said. \u201cWe are prepared to transition from a defensive posture to an offensive<\/a> one. For any violation, we will respond and degrade their capabilities.”<\/p>\n

Zamir added that the IDF refuses to relinquish the original objectives of the Israel-Hamas War, \u201cthe full demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and the disarmament of Hamas<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are operating in accordance with the directive of the political echelon, while maintaining military plans for their defeat, and we stand ready to act defensively as required. We will continue strengthening the defense of the communities of the western Negev,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n

Zamir stated that there will be \u201cno immunity for terrorism,\u201d adding that \u201cwhat applies to terrorists in Gaza applies to the terrorists in other arenas as well,\u201d and that the IDF \u201cwill continue to remain focused and remove threats, with determination and a proactive approach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF observation troops and the Aerial Control Center intercepted a drone attempting to smuggle three M-16 rifles into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16606,2464,50,1031,85,46,43,1349],"class_list":{"0":"post-291007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-drone","9":"tag-eyal-zamir","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-idf","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-smuggling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}