Hamas captures Israeli spy drone, extracts ‘sensitive information’

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it has captured an Israeli spy drone over the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to Palestinian media reports on Sunday, the Hamas military wing Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades seized the multi-rotor aircraft (hexacopter) and extracted “sensitive information.”

“Al-Qassam Brigades was able to capture at dawn Friday, January 27, 2023, an Israeli drone that was on a special mission inside the Gaza Strip,” the Brigades said in a statement. “Our engineers were able to deal with the drone and extract important and sensitive information related to the occupation forces from it.”

Israel kept the disappearance of its drone secret until Hamas announced it had the UAV at its disposal.

An Israeli spokesperson admitted on Sunday that such a drone landed in Gaza during an operational activity last Friday.

Last week, Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza a day after martyring at least 10 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, prompting the resistance to fire rockets at the occupied territories in retaliation. Israeli warplanes hit areas west and south of Gaza, including posts belonging to resistance, on Thursday night and Friday at dawn.

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