Incendiary kites

Board of Peace demands Israel comply with Gaza ceasefire, calls for end to kite attacks

Israeli officials warned the BoP on Sunday that Israel would escalate its activity in the Gaza Strip if the launches were not halted within 72 hours, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.

Smoke and a fire ball rise during an Israeli strike, carried out after the military warned Palestinian residents to evacuate the area of al-Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip, on August 23, 2026.
Palestinian child Omar Halawa, 14, flies a kite above a displacement camp in Gaza City, Gaza on August 23, 2026.

Hamas, Gazan NGO cm'tee warn parents to stop children flying kites after Israel threatens strikes

The kite, which crossed from Gaza to Israel, didn't carry any explosive devices.

Israel must remember the danger carried by Gaza kites, Hamas dictating tempo at border - editorial

Kite launched from Gaza found in Nahal Oz.

Kite launched from Gaza found in Nahal Oz, in seventh security breach in less than a month


Israel again bans gas and fuel into Gaza

“The decision was taken in light of the continued terror balloons and continued friction along the [border] fence,”

Defense Minister Avidgor Liberman at Kerem Shalom last month.

Liberman: Hamas is forcing Israel into a larger Gaza war than 2014

“We have acted responsibly and with discretion.”

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman convenes with IDF officers in the Gaza region

Top security heads meet to assess situation in the South

Hamas mortar lands near cowshed in Eshkol Regional Council after IAF strikes balloon launchers.

Palestinian Hamas militants attend a military drill in preparation to any upcoming confrontation with Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip March 25, 2018.

Is Israel heading to another war with Gaza... over kites and balloons?

The flames have wreaked havoc on a once-beautiful landscape.

Brushfires rage in southern Israel from incendiary kites launched from Gaza

Gaza group vows to continue launching flaming kites at Israel

Hamas says it has accepted an Egyptian proposal to end the dispute with Fatah.

Palestinians prepare kites loaded with flammable material to be thrown at the Israeli side, near the Israel-Gaza border in the central Gaza Strip in June..

PETA condemns use of 'terror falcon' by Hamas

"Animals claim allegiance to no nation, don't choose sides, and can only rely on human beings to show them mercy."

INPA and Gilad Gabai, July 17, 2018.

Security cabinet decides IDF will respond to all kites and balloons

Katz: "Israel made it clear that it would not agree to any type of terrorism, “not rockets, mortars, kites, balloons or anything else against the communities near Gaza.”

Palestinians in central Gaza fly a kite loaded with flammable material to be thrown at Israel

World Cup used to raise global awareness about Gaza kite terrorism

The equivalent of 5,000 soccer fields of land were destroyed by Hamas-orchestrated arson.

A kite flies over the border in an area where kites and balloons have caused blazes, between Israel and the Gaza strip June 8, 2018.

Scorched earth and international law

Judging from recent events, it seems that the war of attrition launched against the nascent State of Israel in 1948 has not ended, only morphed.

Palestinians prepare an incendiary device attached to a kite before trying to fly it over the border fence with Israel, on the eastern outskirts of Jabalia, on May 4, 2018.

Int'l Christian Embassy donates firefighting gear to Gaza border region

The system, which can be hitched to a car and pulled as a trailer, allows community to respond quickly to fires started by incendiary kites and balloons.

Firefighting trailer donated to Eshkol Regional Council by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, July 8, 2018