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Gaza kite terrorists vow to continue arson ‎attacks despite truce

by  Daniel Siryoti
Published on  07-19-2018 00:00
Last modified: 03-31-2021 13:43
Gaza kite terrorists vow to continue arson ‎attacks despite truce

Palestinians in Gaza prepare to fly an incendiary kite over the Israeli Israel

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The Palestinian unit flying incendiary kites and ‎balloons over the Gaza-Israel border vowed Wednesday ‎to continue its arson attacks regardless of the ‎cease-fire reached between Gaza's rulers and Israel ‎over the weekend.‎

Gaza-based terrorists fired 200 projectiles at ‎‎Israel's border towns over on Saturday, triggering a ‎‎forceful Israeli response. While an Egyptian-‎brokered ‎cease-fire was achieved eventually, it did ‎little to ‎affect arson terrorism.‎

The Palestinian daily Al-Quds reported Wednesday ‎that Hamas has informed Egyptian intelligence ‎officials of its plans to gradually scale back the ‎kite ‎terrorism campaign that has been wreaking havoc ‎on the Israeli side of the border since late April, ‎so as to avoid further security escalation that ‎could rapidly spiral into war. ‎

While a senior Hamas official told the paper that ‎this was a "strategic decision" and that the ‎incendiary kites phenomenon was likely to cease by ‎next week, members of the kite unit in Gaza defiantly announced ‎that they "do not answer to anyone" but the Palestinian ‎people.

Suggesting the unit may go rogue, its members ‎released a statement saying, "The kite unit in Gaza ‎is not a hierarchical body that receives orders. We ‎do not answer to Hamas or to any other faction in ‎the resistance. The kite unit answers only to the ‎Palestinian people, and we will continue to fly ‎kites and balloons as part of our nonviolent ‎struggle until the siege of Gaza is removed."‎

Incendiary kites and balloon sparked 21 fires in ‎Israeli communities near the border Wednesday. ‎

‎"We feel like no one is giving us any answers and ‎meanwhile, they [Palestinian terrorists] are burning ‎down everything around us," said Maayan Shneur of ‎Moshav Netiv Haasara, about half a mile from the ‎border.‎

‎"We're conflicted. We know that on one hand, the ‎government is trying to avoid wide-scale fighting, ‎but on the other hand, there's no deterrence. They ‎‎[Hamas] are dictating policy. There can be no cease-‎fire as long as kite terrorism continues," she said. ‎

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