IDF sends troops, aircraft to Egyptian border after pickup trucks approach

The IDF dispatched troops and aircraft to the border with Egypt — near the Israeli border community of Shlomit — after several white pickup trucks approached the area from the Egyptian side.

Military sources say the IDF contacted the Egyptian military to come and disperse the gathering, which had spooked Israeli civilians living in the area, as white pickup trucks have come to be associated with Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, when the terror group employed the vehicles as it broke through the border.

It is not the first time that pickup trucks have been spotted on the Egyptian side of the border in recent days, though the military says that there is no threat to Israeli residents.

Military officials tell the local Eshkol Regional Council that “these are not unusual events and there is no security threat to residents.” However, the council tells residents that it has “requested the involvement of the military and government authorities to act to move the gatherings away from the border and to increase vigilance in the area.”

The IDF stresses that those gathered on the Egyptian border are “unarmed civilians in sovereign Egyptian territory.”

“The IDF is monitoring developments in the border area and is preparing accordingly based on operational needs and security assessments,” the army adds.

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