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IDF intercepts drone smuggling three rifles over Egypt border as Gaza ceasefire resumes

The IDF's statement did not clarify whether the smuggled weapons were intended for terrorists in Gaza or criminal gangs in southern Israel.

The IDF seizes three rifles after a drone attempted to smuggle them across the Egyptian border, October 29, 2025.
 Israeli security forces seen during a military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, February 25, 2025.

As Gaza war looms, Israel faces impending crisis on Egyptian border and the West Bank - analysis

IDF operates in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria on December 13, 2024.

IDF's new strategy: All borders must have buffer zones, defense achieved through offense

 An illustrative image of a female IDF soldier.

Women of war: The IDF female combat soldiers guarding the Israeli-Egyptian border


Israeli UN envoy warns of Egypt's military buildup: 'Why all the submarines and tanks?'

While Egypt has played a central role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, Danon’s words highlighted a growing trust gap between the two nations.

 Members of the military stand next to a helicopter next to the French ship amphibious helicopter carrier Dixmude as it docks, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the city of Al-Arish, Sinai peninsula, Egypt, January 21, 2024.

IDF searches for driver who accelerated toward soldiers along Egyptian border

IDF troops fired at a suspicious vehicle on the Israel-Egypt border; one soldier reportedly sustained minor injuries.

 View of road 10, on the border with Egypt, April 7, 2023.

Securing Israel's borders is paramount, the public are right to demand it - opinion

Long before the events of October 7, and even more so following them, there can be no legitimacy for the lack of significant and very stringent border security enforcement.

 Firefighters work to extinguish wildfires following a missile attack from Lebanon which fell on the Israeli-Syrian border, Valley of Tears, Golan Heights, on July 20, 2024.

These women are the first IDF tank crew preventing drug smuggling along Egyptian border

Meet the 10 women making history operation Israel's first female tank crew along the Egyptian border, preventing drug smuggling.

IDF female combat soldiers.

Egypt’s policy of dualism: Cooperating with Israel while spreading anti-Israel messages - opinion

On one hand, Egypt signed a peace agreement with Israel and strives to create trade routes and cooperation with the US, on the other, it feeds the Egyptian public especially anti-Israel messages.

 THE RAFAH border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip: It is evident from Cairo’s sharp reactions to Israel’s determination to operate in Rafah, that it was completely disinterested in exposing tunnels crossing from the Gaza Strip to its territory, the writer says.

An Israeli offensive in Rafah could worsen relations with Egypt - opinion

Israel and Egypt both aim to demonstrate to the Arab world the destabilizing effects of supporting the Shia axis.

 A BORDER FENCE separates the Gaza Strip and Egypt, at Rafah. From the Egyptian perspective, Israel taking control of the Philadelphi Corridor while ‘encouraging the migration of Gazans to Egypt,’ as several Israeli politicians have stated, constitutes a red line, says the writer.

Israel informs Egypt it will send troops to Gaza's Rafah - report

This comes amid reports that the tense relationship between Israel and Egypt is on the verge of collapse following weeks of a 'deepening chill' amid the IDF's war on Hamas.

 Smoke rises amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 21, 2024.

Israeli soldier wounded in IDF shootout with smugglers on Egypt border

Several people were wounded in the firefight, with a female soldier being taken to hospital, although her condition is now considered to be in good condition.

The Nitzana border crossing between Israel and Egypt 370

On This Day in 1948: Israel crosses Egyptian border en route to independence

Operation Horev was the last operation on the Egyptian front during the war, helping Israel recapture the Negev and expelled the Egyptian military from Israel’s territory.

 Operation Horev, 1948

Israel testing new inspecting process at Gaza crossing, UN says

Until now, limited quantities of aid have been delivered from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, which is ill-equipped to process large numbers of trucks.

 Palestinian workers wait outside Kerem Shalom crossing after a ceasefire was agreed between Palestinian factions and Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip May 14, 2023.

Pressure on Gaza border alarms Egypt as strikes close crossing

Egypt would not allow any mass exodus of Palestinians into Sinai, and saw any move to push Palestinians to migrate south as a serious threat to its security.

 Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas guard at the Rafah border crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip