On Monday morning, the Israeli army announced that it had shot down a plane in the skies of the Gaza Strip , after it had flown within the Strip's airspace, without infiltrating any of the border settlements or posing any danger.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the "Hamas" movement, confirmed that the occupation shot down a "Shehab" plane belonging to him while it was on a training mission in the southern Gaza Strip.

The brigades indicated that it responded immediately by firing several surface-to-air missiles at the Israeli aircraft.