An Israeli aircraft intercepted a drone launched by the Islamist Hamas, which according the Israeli army flew on the shoreline of the Palestinian enclave. Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, declined to comment on the incident. It was the first such incident reported since the 2014 Gaza war, when a U.S.-supplied Israeli Patriot missile destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to Hamas over the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod.