Kibbutz Kissufim

Israeli firefighters arrive to a field set on fire by an incendiary balloon launched by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Monday, September 3, 2018 near the Gaza border. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

September 24, 2018, 5:04 pm

Palestinian said killed, 90 hurt at Gaza rally; balloons spark 9 fires in Israel

Upsurge in arson attacks; officials say they have managed to bring blazes under control

By TOI staff

A suspicious balloon that landed in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, on July 1, 2018. (Israel Police)

July 1, 2018, 7:14 pm

Palestinians infiltrate Israel from Gaza, burn abandoned army post

Incendiary kites sent from coastal enclave ignite 20 fires near border, sappers defuse device that landed near Kiryat Gat

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

An illustrative photo of a firefighter extinguishing a fire in a field near the Gaza Strip that was sparked by a flaming object flown from the Palestinian enclave, on June 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 24, 2018, 2:50 pm

Fresh fires sparked by flaming devices flown from Gaza

Firefighters extinguish blaze close to Kissufim, working to put out 2 other fires near Be’eri and Nir Am

By TOI staff

Palestinians load kites and balloons with flammable material in order to fly toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/ Mahmud Hams)

June 17, 2018, 4:05 pm

Air force targets Gazans launching fire balloons at southern Israel

Hamas-linked news site reports IDF drone fired at Palestinians east of Khan Younis who sent airborne incendiary devices into Israel; blazes reported in nearby Kissufim

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

A fire caused by incendiary kites from Gaza burns near Kibbutz Kissufim on May 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

May 31, 2018, 1:43 pm

Flaming kite from Gaza said to spark brush fire in south

Firefighters battle blaze between Kissufim and Ein Hashlosha kibbutzim

By TOI staff

May 25, 2018, 1:49 pm

Firebomb-laden kite causes huge blaze along Gaza border

Strong winds make it difficult for firefighters to control fires burning through trees and scrub near Kissufim

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Palestinians try to use a kite to fly a Molotov Cocktail toward IDF troops along the Gaza fence on April 13 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

April 15, 2018, 9:36 pm

Gazans fly kite with petrol bomb into Israel, where it starts fire in field

Third such incident in recent days causes small blaze in field of Kibbutz Kissufim adjacent to border

By TOI staff

Footage filmed through a scope, publicized on April 9, 2018, that appears to show the moment before an Israeli sniper shoots a Palestinian who approached the Gaza security fence. (Screen capture)

April 10, 2018, 4:18 pm

Army clears sniper filmed shooting Gazan, denounces cameraman

Defense minister calls IDF ‘the most moral army in the world,’ says soldiers sometimes need to ‘let out some tension’; IDF says suspect was wounded in the leg

By Judah Ari Gross and Alexander Fulbright

Palestinian terrorists from the Islamic Jihad group attend the funeral of comrades killed in an Israeli operation to blow up a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israel, during their funeral at the Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, on October 31, 2017 (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

October 31, 2017, 8:36 pm

Islamic Jihad doesn’t want to rain on the reconciliation parade

Pressure from Hamas and Egypt holds terror group back from retaliating for Israel’s destruction of its Gaza attack tunnel and the deaths of its men

By Avi Issacharoff

The body of Marwan Alagha, 22, is carried by mourners after he was killed when Israel blew up a tunnel built by the Islamic Jihad terror group stretching from the Gaza Strip into its territory, at Naser hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 30, 2017. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

October 31, 2017, 12:59 am

Despite huge tunnel setback, Islamic Jihad likely won’t start war with Israel

After IDF destroys cross-border attack tunnel, killing terrorists, Gazan terror group faces pressure from enclave rulers Hamas to avoid conflict

By Avi Issacharoff

Illustrative. A picture taken on May 6, 2016, from the Israeli side of the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip shows the exit of a newly unearthed Hamas attack tunnel. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

October 30, 2017, 2:53 pm

IDF destroys attack tunnel in Israeli territory built after 2014 war

Military says passage, dug from Gaza’s Khan Younis, was under active construction, holds Hamas responsible

By Judah Ari Gross

Scene of the accidental drowning death of Ilan Yankilevich, near Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, on July 27, 2016. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

March 7, 2017, 12:43 am

3 former IDF officers charged in case of drowned soldier

Military prosecutor accuses 2 suspects of negligent manslaughter in drowing death of Ilan Yankilevich last July

By TOI staff

A Palestinian man runs for cover as smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas post in the northern Gaza Strip, February 6, 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

February 6, 2017, 10:05 pm

Hamas: Israel ‘fully accountable’ for any escalation in fighting

Terror group calls on world to stop Israeli ‘aggression’ after rocket fired from Gaza Strip met with airstrikes, tank shelling

By TOI staff

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi speaks at the Herzliya Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on June 15, 2016. (Screen capture: IDC Herzliya)

September 20, 2016, 12:47 pm

Commanders of drowned IDF soldier to be dismissed

Army investigation into death of Ilan Yankilevich finds problems with senior officers’ command, routine safety procedures

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

March 7, 2016, 4:54 pm

Palestinians say Gaza man shot, wounded by IDF

Israel says soldiers securing border came under attack, but only responded with warning shots into the air

By Judah Ari Gross and Stuart Winer