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Israel flies air strikes in Gaza after fire balloons

2021-07-02T16:34:42.094Z


Again and again, militant Palestinians let balloons laden with incendiary devices fly over the border. The Israeli army responded by attacking a Hamas base in the Gaza Strip.


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Masked Palestinians during the production of fire balloons (archive recording)

Photo: MAHMUD HAMS / AFP

The army of Israel has again launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip.

In retaliation for attacks with fire balloons from the Palestinian territory, fighter jets fired at an arms factory of the radical Islamic Hamas on Friday night, according to the Israeli army.

Hamas security sources reported that a training area was hit.

Initially, nothing was known about the injured.

According to the Israeli fire brigade, incendiary devices attached to balloons triggered four fires on Thursday in the southern Israeli region of Eshkol on the border with the Gaza Strip.

The fires were therefore "small and harmless" and could be brought under control quickly.

Militant Palestinians repeatedly let such balloons loaded with explosives and incendiary devices fly over the border to Israel in order to cause damage there.

There are regular fires in fields in the south of the country.

The Israeli air force last carried out retaliatory attacks in the Gaza Strip in mid-June.

At that time, too, militant Palestinians had previously launched fire balloons into Israel.

It was the first Israeli air strikes in Gaza since the end of eleven days of rocket fire between Israel and Hamas in May.

Israel's conflict with Hamas escalated on May 10 when the Palestinian Organization fired massive rockets at Israel in response to clashes between Palestinians and police in East Jerusalem.

By the time a ceasefire brokered by Egypt came into force on May 21, 260 Palestinians had been killed.

The rocket attacks on Israel resulted in 13 deaths during this period.

The Islamist Hamas is classified as a terrorist organization by Israel, the USA and the EU.

A majority of the two million people in the coastal area live in very poor conditions, according to aid organizations.

as / dpa / AFP

Source: spiegel

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