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Tuesday, February 19, 2019
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
For first time in months, incendiary devices from Gaza started blazes in Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFor the first time in several months, balloons carrying incendiary devices from the Gaza Strip have sparked fires in a forest just outside the coastal enclave, officials say.
Firefighters from the Eshkol region and Fire and Rescue Services extinguished “two small blazes” in a forest outside of the community of Kibbutz Kissufim, the local authority says.
Initially, the Eshkol regional council said the cause of the fires was not immediately known, but they were later confirmed to have been sparked by arson devices from Gaza, a fire department spokesperson says.
— Judah Ari Gross
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