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Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Forest on Gaza border torched by incendiary balloons
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFirefighters are working to extinguish three blazes caused by incendiary balloons in the Kissufim forest bordering the Gaza Strip, authorities say.
Yesterday, municipal officials said that four fires had been ignited by incendiary balloons near Gaza border communities, with one of them burning hundreds of dunams of wheat fields.
On Friday Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi said that an unofficial deal with Gazan terrorist groups for calm along the border was proving effective, and that there had been a decrease in the number of incendiary devices flown into Israel.
In addition, Kohavi told heads of communities near Gaza that violence along the border fence had calmed significantly from earlier this year, when clashes between protesting Palestinians and Israeli troops had been a near-daily occurrence.
שלושה מוקדי שריפה ביער כיסופים בעוטף עזה. במקום פועלים צוותי הכיבוי. גורם השריפה – בלוני תבערה@Itsik_zuarets (צילום: משה ברוכי) pic.twitter.com/ZgHRY06Y9Q
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) June 11, 2019
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