Gaza terror group may have accidentally shot down a fellow terrorist drone

The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a Gaza-based terrorist group whose goal is to kill as many Jews as Allah permits, and destroy Israel--don't let their name fool you. They claimed on Saturday that they downed an "Israeli spy aircraft," probably a small propellor drone, but alas, it may have belonged to a fellow terrorist organization and they will need to buy a new one at the "Terrorists R Us" store.

An Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman [terrorists never use spokeswomen because they think women are inferior] said she had no knowledge of such an incident and she would know because she's very close to people high up in the IDF.

Haaretz, a left-wing Israeli paper, citing unnamed Gaza sources, later reported that the UAV [aka drone] was in fact operated by the Islamic Jihad, another Gaza terror group.

The Islamic Jihad drone was downed near Khan Younis in the south of the Strip after being mistaken for an Israeli aircraft and had likely been supplied to Islamic Jihad by Iran, the report said. The PFLP promised to buy them a new one for Eid.

Islamic Jihad was said to be investigating the incident alongside the "Fightin' Hamassholes."

It was the second drone-downing incident in the Strip this week. On Tuesday the IDF had said one of its drones had fallen in Gaza overnight. Palestinian media reported that the drone was shot down and was seized by Hamas.

In a statement, the military said it was investigating the incident.

Hamas claimed it spotted the drone and shot it down with gunfire east of Rafah, [not to be confused with the great Spanish tennis champion] in the southern Gaza Strip, the Shehab news agency reported. According to the report, the aircraft was apparently a helicopter-type drone.

On Monday the Hezbollah terror group claimed it shot down an IDF drone over southern Lebanon, but Hezhollians tend to be lousy marksmen so it's improbable.

The IDF confirmed that the drone fell inside Lebanese territory. Asked if the aircraft had been shot down or crashed due to a technical issue, an army spokesperson said, “It fell, as far as I know.”

Some of the IDF’s smaller drones crash with relative frequency, owing to their size, simple design and eBay batteries. These drones are nothing like the far more advanced UAVs used by the IDF.

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