IDF says it shot down drone heading toward Israel ‘from the east’

The IDF says that it shot down in the past hour a drone that was fired at Israel “from the east,” usually indicating it was launched from Iraq.

The drone was shot down before entering Israeli airspace, the military says.

The incident marks the sixth drone that the IDF has shot down throughout the day, it says, after five others were launched from Lebanon. One of them was intercepted over the Western Galilee while the rest were intercepted before entering Israel, the military says.

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