Gaza City, January 30 (RHC)-- An Israeli drone has reportedly crashed in the southern Gaza Strip near the coastal sliver’s border with Israel. The drone apparently fell east of the city of Rafah on Wednesday, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli forces quickly entered Gaza and moved the aircraft to the other side of the border. But an Israeli army spokesperson said he was unfamiliar with the incident.

Israel occupied the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank during the Six-Day War of 1967. Israel conducted a self-proclaimed withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, but Israeli forces have been carrying out regular deadly forays into the Gaza Strip ever since the so-called pullout.

The Palestinian news agency said that Israeli military drones regularly fly over the enclave even after a ceasefire that ended a 2012 Israeli military offensive, which left 170 Palestinians and six Israelis dead.