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An IAF plane attacked on Saturday a terrorist cell responsible for launching incendiary balloons from the southern Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.
This is not the first time the army has attacked squads of incendiary balloons in Gaza. Several such operations have recently been completed.
Palestinians preparing incendiary balloons
Earlier Saturday, fires broke out in the Kissufim, Beeri and Shokeda forests in the Gaza region. Firefighting teams and staff of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) have been deployed in the field. No injuries were reported.
On Friday, Israeli defense officials said the clashes on the border with the Gaza Strip
Friday was the quietest since the "March back".
The campaign began seven months ago and Hamas was able to contain the violence.
Incendiary balloons (Photo: Reuters)
In total, some 10,000 Palestinians took part in demonstrations along the border, most of them in the Gaza Strip. The IDF said most protesters were standing away from the border fence and that very few violent incidents were reported to have been triggered by explosive devices, Molotov cocktails, and more. grenades.
Defense officials said Hamas had deployed armed men near the fence, who had taken care to calm the area and prevent violent incidents.
In addition, the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen announced that the IDF had also sent text messages to residents of Gaza to warn them not to go to the border.
However, the sources added that IDF policy had not changed and that the events of the violence were mainly explained by the restraint imposed by Hamas.
(Photo: AFP)
Hamas said Friday that "the persistence of the population in Gaza and the massive participation in the 30th week of the" March of Return "to lift the blockade is the biggest response to the threats of the Israeli enemy, For Ismail Radwan, Hamas leader, "no evidence asked us to stop the protests. Even the Egyptians stressed that we had the right to protest. "
The Security Cabinet – which met on Thursday
following a rocket attack launched from Gaza on a house in Be'er Sheva
and in the sea off a city in central Israel – instructed the Israeli army to exacerbate its retaliation for violence along the security fence and to show zero tolerance.
Riot on the border with Gaza (Photo: AFP)
During the meeting, the military presented two operational plans to combat violent border clashes and to manipulate the incendiary fireballs launched from the Strip in Israel, the first being air strikes against terrorist targets in the Strip. secondly violence while gradually intensifying the response of the army to the attempts of the offense and the launching of incendiary balloons.
(Photo: Reuters)
Nevertheless, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has suggested a more aggressive approach against Hamas, as one might expect in the light of his recent remarks.
Lieberman's plan was rejected.
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