Kite flown from Gaza again lands in Israeli border kibbutz, local official says

Another kite apparently flown from the Gaza Strip landed in Kibbutz Nahal Oz a short while ago, local authorities say.

“The additional kite discovered in Nahal Oz reinforces the understanding that this is not an isolated incident,” says Uri Epstein, head of the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council. “While Hamas is returning to its former strength, Israel is returning to a policy of containment and reaction instead of initiative.”

Israeli leaders have threatened Hamas over the recent launching of kites, but the terror group has claimed they are merely “children’s toys” from Gaza refugee camps.

So far, none of the kites launched from Gaza in recent days have carried any suspicious items on them, but many have associated the objects with the kites and balloons carrying incendiary devices that were launched by Gaza terror groups, and plagued southern Israel, for a number of years in the run-up to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught, in which terrorists on hanggliders crossed the border.

Epstein says that the border communities “expect a clear and unequivocal Israeli policy: every object that crosses from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory must be identified and dealt with in real time, not only after it lands in our communities.”