Overview
- A reserve soldier who owns a farm near Pnei Kedem fired his personal weapon at a powered paraglider over nearby Israeli homes, and the aircraft left with no injuries or damage.
- The IDF said it has opened an investigation into the incident.
- A preliminary check found the flight had prior clearance to take off from the Jordan Valley but veered outside its approved airspace.
- The deviation carried the craft into another brigade’s area, where local forces treated it as hostile and the reservist responded with gunfire.
- The episode underscores the risk of misreading low, slow aircraft in the Judea and Samaria area and could spur tighter flight corridors and quicker alerts to local guards.