Israel's military said on Thursday it shot down a drone smuggling weapons from Egyptian territory to Israel on Wednesday.
The Border Between Egypt and Israel in the Negev © Mena Today
Israel's military said on Thursday it shot down a drone smuggling weapons from Egyptian territory to Israel on Wednesday.
Israeli officials have said during the war that Palestinian armed group Hamas used tunnels running under the border into Egypt's Sinai region to smuggle arms.
Egypt says it destroyed tunnel networks leading to Gaza years ago and created a buffer zone and border fortifications that prevent smuggling.
Reporting by Jana Choukeir
Eighty-five percent of African private-sector transactions are conducted with companies outside the continent. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi used that figure on Saturday to open the inaugural Alamein Africa Forum, a three-day business summit in the Mediterranean city of El-Alamein.
The Omani co-pilot suspected of trying to crash a Flydubai Boeing 737 on its way from Dubai to Tel Aviv completed a training course with Morocco's national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), before being turned down for a job there, the airline said Saturday.
The Omani co-pilot who attacked his captain aboard a flydubai flight had been barred from flying by his own country's authorities, who suspected he had been radicalized, several international media outlets reported Saturday.
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