Posted on 06/20/2018 1:13:33 PM PDT by BBell
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are relentlessly flying a variety of airborne arson and explosive devices into Israel, causing hundreds of fires, millions of shekels in damage
For over two months, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been flying kites, birthday balloons and inflated latex condoms into Israel, relying on the gentle Mediterranean coastal breeze to push them across the border.
Silly as they may sound, these weapons are no joke.
Most of them carry metal mesh pouches containing a burning piece of coal or oil-soaked rag, which have sparked hundreds of fires in southern Israel, destroying thousands of acres of land and causing millions of shekels in damage.
A smaller number carry small explosive devices, which seem to have not yet caused injury because of repeated warnings by police and local government officials not to approach them.
“They are not toys, they are weapons that are intended to kill and inflict damage,” IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told reporters on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, a cluster of balloons carrying one such small explosive device landed in a backyard in the Eshkol region of southern Israel, getting stuck on a trampoline, a spokesperson for the local government said.
“Balloons on a trampoline in the backyard — that’s a decorative play area and beckons the most innocent ones, and yet our children have lost their innocence because of this phenomenon,” said Meirav Vidal, the mother whose home it was.
“These days it’s important to explain to kids that balloons are also a ‘suspicious object’ that they have to keep away from, to not touch and to call an adult,” Vidal said.
The kites are almost all handmade. Three criss-crossing scraps of wood, bound in the middle with a piece of wire, form a hexagonal frame, which is covered in a piece of plastic sheeting.
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A booby-trapped balloon flown from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory on June 15, 2018. (Israel Police)
A balloon with ‘habibi,’ or ‘my beloved,’ written on it, with a small explosive device attached to it, which landed in a field in southern Israel on June 19, 2018. (Eshkol Regional Council)
Palestinian protesters hold balloons before loading them with flammable material to be flown towards Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in the central Gaza Strip on June 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
Jerusalem lets the enemy Occupy major parts of Isarel’s Promised Land
the enemy uses those sites as launching grounds for more and more murderous attacks against innocent Israelis and their cities, towns, childrens’ schools, and worst of all, pizza parlors
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KILL THE ENEMY, Israel, KILL THE ENEMY once and for all.
all your ‘humanitarianism’ does is enable the Satanists to continue attacking your people
KILL THE ENEMY once and for all.
(or, if you still wish to remain humitarian, give them 48 hours to repatriate themselves to their own countries)
There is no good use for anyone that believes in islam but fertilizer.
The things you see when you you don’t have your 870...
If palisimians expended 1/100th the effort that is used to destroy things now, to build new things and expand human knowledge, we would have thriving colonies on mars by now.
Would it be possible for Israeli sharpshooters with 10/22s to pick them off before the balloons/condoms cross the border, thus causing fires/explosions on the Gaza side, or would that be a war crime?
Since the prevailing winds run from Gaza to Israel, how about launching similar “kites” from the sea, off the coast of Gaza?
Literally, fight fire with fire.
The Israelis have real weapons. The need to use them.
ML/NJ
Shoot anyone seen launching any of these devices. Shoot anyone seen building any of these devices.
Shut off all aid to Gaza immediately until this stops.
Shut off all power to Gaza immediately until this stops.
Shut off all water to Gaza immediately until this stops.
Shut off all food deliveries to Gaza immediately until this stops.
Let the savages die of hunger and thirst in the dark.
L
Green light lasers are much more powerful than red light lasers. And part of their circuitry is to reduce their light output. If you disable that circuitry, it can easily burn skin, pop balloons, set kites on fire, etc., and all on a budget.
Until they were more closely regulated in the US, a person could easily make a 5 Watt laser that could burn through a cinder block.
My point is that the Israeli government should equip people in border areas with such cheapy lasers, along with with the legal authority to shoot down any suspicious UFOs that may cross the border.
Time to clear out a 2 km ‘dead zone’ outside the boundry walls to prevent MOST of the attacks.
The pally’s are going to lie anyway, so just shoot the ones who are obviously upto something destructive(and if pally snipering starts then artillery strikes).
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