Egyptian air force downs drone off Sinai
ISMAILIYA, Egypt — The Egyptian air force shot down a drone off the Sinai Peninsula down the coast from the Israeli border, state-linked media reports.
Witnesses say they saw a second flying object crash on land further up the coast.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they had fired multiple drones at southern Israel.
Egyptian television channel Al-Qahera reports “the crash of an unidentified flying object in Egyptian territorial waters near the city of Dahab.”
It quotes witnesses as saying “air defenses detected the flying object and dealt with it immediately.”
A source in the security services tells AFP that it was a drone of which “the origin is still unknown.”
