{"id":574469,"date":"2026-08-04T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:44:09","slug":"israeli-forces-foil-alleged-border-smuggling-ring-seize-drone-and-illicit-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574469\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces foil alleged border smuggling ring, seize drone and illicit drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli undercover operatives recently busted a smuggling ring in Israel&#8217;s South in a series of takedowns &#8220;along the [south]western border,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-904526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a> and Israel Police announced in a joint statement on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Undercover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-904191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Border Police<\/a> officers, working in tandem with several other wings of the security establishment, conducted two separate missions targeting large-scale drug smuggling operations.<\/p>\n<p>In the first operation, two suspects were arrested, and a large drone was confiscated from them, which police suspect was used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-904452\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transport drugs<\/a> across the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second operation, Israeli security forces seized a vehicle containing a large quantity of substances suspected to be illicit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/article-904301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drugs<\/a> intended for distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The two arrested individuals and the seized materials were transferred to the Segev Shalom station in the Southern District for further investigation by the Israel Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli undercover operatives recently busted a smuggling ring in Israel&#8217;s South in a series of takedowns &#8220;along the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25101,44917,737,16606,74776,497,1031,85,46,1158,43,102,1349],"class_list":["post-574469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-border","tag-border-police","tag-crime","tag-drone","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-drugs","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-police","tag-smuggling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574469","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=574469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}