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Israel-Egypt border

White flat-bed trucks on the Egyptian side of the border with Israel, February 11, 2026. (Kan news screenshots)
February 12, 2026, 4:28 am
IDF sends troops, aircraft to Egyptian border after pickup trucks approach
Army says Israelis face no threat from ‘unarmed civilians in sovereign Egyptian territory,’ following most recent spotting of trucks near border
By Emanuel Fabian
View of the Israeli-Egyptian border. September 9, 2025. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)
December 25, 2025, 11:04 pm
In first, IAF helicopter gunship downs two arms smuggling drones from Egypt
Military investigating fatal overnight incident along border, in which Bedouin man was shot and killed; survivor of incident arrested, but denies he and the deceased were smugglers
By Stav Levaton
IDF troops stand with a drone that was used in an attempted drug smuggling on the Egyptian border, March 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 17, 2025, 5:01 pm
IDF struggles in arms race against gun-runners on Egypt border
Military reports downing 130 smugglers’ drones, seizing 85 guns in the past month; officers say Shin Bet, police, and legislators need to help cut smuggling pipeline
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF troops stand with a drone that was used in an attempted drug smuggling on the Egyptian border, March 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 6, 2025, 11:16 am
Katz orders IDF to declare Egyptian border closed military zone over drone smugglings
Defense minister says he’s ‘declaring war’ on gun-runners, Shin Bet will define such acts as terror; Zamir instructs military to focus efforts and resources on threat
By Emanuel Fabian
A view of the Israel-Egypt border south of the Nitzana Crossing, January 12, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
September 30, 2025, 9:26 am
Israeli man killed in car chase with IDF amid apparent smuggling attempt on Egypt border
Car carrying several suspected smugglers crashes into army vehicle during chase; army believes they were set to use drones to bring contraband into Israel
By Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to IDF troops in Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border, July 18, 2024. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 6, 2025, 12:30 am
In deepening war of words, Netanyahu accuses Egypt of ‘imprisoning’ Gazans in Strip
Cairo says it will block ‘displacement’ of Palestinians, again accuses Israel of genocide, after PM says he would let Gazans who want to exit Strip do so via Rafah but Egypt would stop them
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Weapons seized from a drone during an attempted smuggling over the Egyptian border, April 15, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 16, 2025, 9:15 am
IDF downs drone smuggling guns from Egypt, seizes weapons
Failed smuggling attempt one of several of past few weeks; recent months have seen IDF also down drones flying items from Israel to Gaza, as well as strike suspects on Gazan side
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
A man hoists a sign reading "No to displacement" at a demonstration against US President Donald Trump's plan to take over Gaza, on the Egyptian side of the Strip's Rafah Border Crossing, January 31, 2025. (Kerolos Salah / AFP)
April 2, 2025, 7:26 pm
Study finds Egyptian state media overwhelmingly anti-Israel, antisemitic
Research says 87% of opinion pieces about Israel in country’s two leading news outlets speak negatively about the Jewish state, and 30% of those about Jews use antisemitic tropes
By Zev Stub
View of the northern Gaza Strip as it seen from the Israeli side of the border, on February 9, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 9, 2025, 7:36 pm
IDF fires at Palestinians who approached northern Gaza border, three said killed
Defense Minister Israel Katz warns: ‘Anyone who enters the buffer zone puts their life at risk’; separately, Gazan woman reportedly killed east of Khan Younis
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF troops operate in the West Bank city of Jenin on January 31, 2025, in this handout photo. (IDF)
February 2, 2025, 2:24 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 2: Day 485 – Pulling out of Gaza, IDF trains its sights on West Bank
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on counter-terrorism operation in Jenin, IDF troops under fire in Syrian buffer zone, newly named IDF head Eyal Zamir, and ‘quiet’ Egyptian border
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
Col. Shemer Raviv, the commander of the Paran Regional Brigade, on the Israel-Egypt border, January 12, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
January 21, 2025, 7:36 am
On Egypt border, senior IDF officer warns quietest ‘front’ has potential to erupt
Col. Shemer Raviv details challenges on 200-kilometer border for which he is responsible, including the increasing threat of drones
By Emanuel Fabian
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Liran Mones Almosnino (Courtesy)
January 7, 2025, 8:39 pm
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Liran Almosnino, 42: Shepherd and ‘man of nature’
Killed battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Holit on October 7
By ToI Staff
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 4, 2024, 8:02 pm
Top Netanyahu aide doesn’t rule out pullout from Gaza-Egypt border in deal’s 2nd phase
Strategic Affairs Minister Dermer says IDF must stay at Philadelphi Corridor until ‘practical solution’ found; Cairo says staying there as PM advocated would violate peace treaty
By Lazar Berman
View of the Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, on July 15, 2024. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)
August 29, 2024, 12:39 pm
‘Philadelphi is becoming Rafah’: Negotiators lament politicization of ceasefire term
Officials say Netanyahu is making a campaign out of controlling border corridor, goading Egypt and complicating hostage talks, as he did with IDF incursion into southern Gaza city
By Jacob Magid
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks during the funeral of terror victim Matan Elmaliach at the Maale Adumim cemetery, February 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
July 3, 2024, 2:49 pm
‘The nation demands occupation’: Minister shares post calling for conquest of Sinai
Amichai Eliyahu retweets call to buy shirts printed with a map of an expanded Israel — including the West Bank, Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai — emblazoned with the slogan ‘Occupation Now’
By Sam Sokol
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