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


Trump moves are killing two-state solution, Palestinian PM spokesman says

Palestinian Authority boycotting Trump administration "because of the unilateral and baseless declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital" of Israel, Ahmad Shami says.

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Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim Israel has exaggerated incendiary kite threat

Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza claim to have fired about 300 burning kites since the return marches began at the end of March, a number Israeli sources claim is understated.

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.

12 fires rage in the Negev from terror kites, balloons

Fires rage in southern Israel as a result of incendiary kites and balloons launched from the Gaza Strip

Fighting kite terror

The IDF deploys new technology to put an end to the launching of incendiary objects from Gaza

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

The Gazan kite offensive and the arc of human progress

Israel continues to become more innovative, powerful and wealthy. Simultaneously, the Palestinians slide evermore backward and grow weaker as an outcome of its military innovation.

A DRONE FLOWN by IDF soldiers trying to intercept Palestinian kites and balloons loaded with flammable materials, is pictured near Kissufim Tuesday.

The fields of the Negev

What good will it do them? What will they get from all the tunnels they dig, the rockets they shoot at us and the fires they set? Nothing.

Gazan demonstrators launch a kite with a Molotov cocktail attached into Israeli territory. It lands within Gaza's borders

IDF uncovers Hamas's operating system for kite terror

The Hamas operatives who receive the orders, produce the kites and balloons and then attach the firebombs which they receive from Hamas resources.

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.

Terrorist attacks on Israelis reach 2 1/2-year high

The tally for May is the highest on record since October 2015, when 620 attacks were recorded.

Israeli security at the scene where a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on Israelis at the Har Adar settlement, outside of Jerusalem, Sept. 26, 2017.

Winds of war: Will kite and balloon fires spark a major conflict in Gaza?

Children’s toys and other ‘creative alternatives’ are being used by Gazans to ravage hundreds of hectares of land in the South, and the IDF doesn’t know what to do about it.

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.

Gaza border communities economically battered by kite fires

While the burning kites have yet to kill or maim any Israeli civilians, they are increasingly inflicting an economic toll.

A field set on fire by Palestinian terrorists using balloons with burning materials attached to them