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Gaza arson balloons spark 3 blazes in south — fire department
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJudah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent.
Illustrative: Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze in southern Israel that was sparked by a balloon-borne incendiary device launched by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, on June 15, 2021. (Flash90)
A Fire and Rescue Services investigator determines that a number of fires in southern Israel earlier today were sparked by balloon-borne incendiary devices launched from the Gaza Strip.
According to the fire department, the arson attacks sparked three small brushfires in the Eshkol region of southern Israel.
“A fire investigator from the Southern District Fire and Rescue Services determined that the blaze was caused by the launching of incendiary balloons,” a fire department spokesperson says.
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