The IDF identified and stopped two drones carrying six M-16 rifles into Israeli territory "from the west" on Friday, the IDF announced on Saturday.
The drones were first identified by IDF field observers and the Aerial Defense Array before IDF troops arrived in the area and seized them.
The weapons were transferred to the Israel Police.
Hi-tech border security fence planned
This comes a week after The Jerusalem Post reported that the IDF's new hi-tech security fence along the border with Jordan, designed to block smuggling, could be completed as early as the start of 2028.
In late 2025, the Defense Ministry updated that the initial work would cover roughly 40 km., stretching from Hamat Gader near the southern Golan Heights to Yardena, and from the Jordan Valley checkpoint to Yafit.
That project is just one part of a larger plan to fortify Israel’s 425-km. border with Jordan, from the Samar Sands north of Eilat through the West Bank to the southern Golan Heights.
Jordan has been traditionally viewed as a quiet and safe border since a peace deal between the countries in 1995, and the nations even share high-level intelligence to fight terror.
But Israel believes that Iran is outplaying the Jordanians and sometimes succeeding at smuggling high-level weapons into the West Bank for terror purposes, a phenomenon that even started earlier in 2023 and has only gotten worse.