After Tuesday’s bombings, Israel warns that incendiary balloon attacks in Gaza continue

Israel denounced on Wednesday that, after launching retaliatory airstrikes in the Gaza StripIncendiary balloons continued to flow of the Palestinian enclave against its territory, the first major incidents since the ceasefire since May.

Israeli airstrikes are the first since The new government led by former Defense Minister Naftali Bennett came to power last Sunday, which ended more than 12 years of uninterrupted reign of Benjamin Netanyahu.

A spokesperson for the fire department said response teams were fighting Wednesday evening (local time) against “four fires caused by balloons launched from the Gaza Strip” for the second day in a row.

On another side, Israeli soldiers kill woman in West Bank who they say tried to crash into her car to various soldiers.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health was limited to confirm this death near Ramallah, in the West Bank. Palestinian news agency Wafa He identified her as Mai Khaled Yussef Afana, 29, from Abu Dis, a Palestinian town near Jerusalem.

First incidents after the ceasefire

In Gaza, the hours before these incidents, the Israeli air force attacked at least one site east of the town of Khan Younisaccording to Palestinian sources.

The Israeli army has confirmed that their “war planes” attacked Hamas sites used for “meetings” of this movement, in retaliation for the launch of incendiary balloons on Tuesday.

These incidents are the first between Israel and Gaza since the May 21 ceasefire, which ended an 11-day war that left 260 dead on the Palestinian side and 13 dead in Israel.

The attacks occur after a protest by nationalists and the far right that gathered more than a thousand people in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, Palestinian sector of the city controlled by Israel in 1967.

Moderation

The United States and the UN called for moderation in the face of the controversial march, licensed by the Bennett government.

The Hamas terrorist movement, which made the Defense of Jerusalem, its hobbyhorse in recent weeks, threatened Israel with retaliation if the march ventured into the Muslim quarters of the city.

“March of Flags” commemorated “Jerusalem Day” for Israelis, when the eastern part of the city was occupied and annexed in 1967.

The protesters, including far-right figures like Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, arrived in the square in front of the Damascus gate, which accesses the Muslim quarter of the city, where the Esplanade des Mosques is located.

“The eternal people are not afraid of the long road”, chanted protesters waving Israeli blue and white flags. Cries of “death to Arabs” were also heard, according to a team from the agency. AFP on the spot.

With information from AFP

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