Downing happened on sidelines of Gaza fighting. “I think that says everything about the real patron of terror in the Middle East and the world

The drone Israel shot down near the border with Jordan on Tuesday was Iranian, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.

“While we were engaged in these hostilities a few days ago, Iran sent an armed drone from Iraq or from Syria,” Netanyahu told German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who was in Jerusalem. “Iranian forces launched an armed drone, which our forces intercepted on the border between Israel and Jordan.

“I think this says everything on the true patron of terror in the Middle East and in the world: Iran,” Netanyahu added, showing Maas a piece of the drone.

The IDF shot down a drone on Tuesday that was approaching the Israeli-Jordanian border, traveling toward the Emek Hama’ayanot Regional Council in northern Israel.

IDF units collected the fragments of the destroyed aircraft for further examination.
At the time, residents of Beit She’an – which sits within the regional council – were instructed to lock themselves in their homes for nearly an hour, before the IDF announced that the area had been secured, and that it was again safe for people to leave their homes.

Netanyahu said he described to Maas how Israel is fighting on multiple fronts, and that Iran is behind all of them.
“Iran not only supports completely the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and gives them all the finance, they also give weapons to Hamas as well as to Hezbollah, and they provide the scaffolding on which these organizations really work,” he stated.
Iranian Quds Force Commander Ismail Ghaani wrote a letter of support to Hamas’s Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Dief this week, according to Iranian news site Khabar Online. Ghaani wrote to Dief that he was “faithful to your promise to the enemy. The usurper tasted the fear, defeat and humiliation... This war has ushered in a new phase in the battle with the enemy... The equation is that the enemy cannot isolate Quds [Jerusalem] without receiving a tough response.”
World powers continued negotiations with Iran in Vienna throughout the time that Hamas and other Gaza terrorist groups rained rockets on Israel with material support from the Islamic Republic. The goal of the negotiations is for Iran to return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the 2015 nuclear deal is known, and for the US to lift sanctions placed on Iran since 2018.

Russian Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted photos from ongoing talks with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday, and said on Thursday that while negotiations for Iran to return to the JCPOA would not be completed by the May 21 target date, “the talks will continue until a successful outcome.”