Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas that a drone downed by the Israel Defense Forces earlier this week was an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle armed with explosives.
The IDF until now has largely remained mum on the incident, in which the UAV was brought down as it approached Israeli airspace near the city of Beit Shean.
According to Netanyahu, the drone was made by Iran and launched toward Israel from either Syria or Iraq.
This would be the second time that Iran has sent armed UAVs into Israel.
In a similar case in 2018, a drone was flown from Syria into northern Israel before it was shot down by an Israeli helicopter.
In response, the IDF launched a wave of strikes on Iranian assets in Syria.
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