Another night of tension in the Gaza Strip

The Israeli Air Force today launched airstrikes against positions of Islamist organizations in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the use of balloons with improvised incendiary devices that caused fires in the southern part of the country.

The Israeli PA was hit training facilities, without reporting injuries, quoted sources close to the security services of the Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Palestinian enclave.

«In response to incendiary balloons fired from Gaza into Israel, fighter jets struck a facility where weapons belonging to Hamas were being manufactured.“The Israeli army said in a statement.

Yesterday, four fires broke out in Israel due to improvised incendiary devices, according to a statement from the Israeli fire brigade.

“Four fires broke out in the Eskol area, near the Gaza Strip,” the fire brigade said, adding that experts concluded that the cause was “incendiary balloons”.

The small fires were quickly extinguished, according to the same source.

On June 18, the Israeli PA also bombed positions of the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the launch of balloons with adapted incendiary devices towards Israel.

It was the second in a series of strikes since the ceasefire came into force on May 21, ending the 11-day war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a poor Palestinian enclave of two million people under Israeli siege. more than 15 years.

From May 10 to 21, 260 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, including fighters, according to local authorities. In Israel, rocket fire from Gaza killed 13 people, including a soldier, police and army.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday during a military ceremony that Israel is “not happy to fight” but when it deems it “necessary”, “will not hesitate” to give a “massive and strong response”.

(File photo)

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