“The drone was on a special mission over the Gaza Strip, our engineers were able to cope with it and extract important ... information about enemy forces,” RIA Novosti reports.
According to the Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed the loss of a drone in the Gaza Strip and announced the launch of an investigation into the incident.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel does not seek to escalate tensions with Palestine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during telephone conversations with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki, called for refraining from any actions that could provoke the degradation of the situation.