Incendiary kites

IDF raises alert level over concerns of a possible Hamas response to Gaza strikes

Southern Command officials are also not ruling out rocket fire toward Israel as an attempt by Hamas to demonstrate its strength.

|ByAMIR BOHBOT
IDF Northern Brigade troops dismantle terror tunnels near the Yellow Line in the northern Gaza Strip. Images released on September 2, 2026.
A VIEW OF a brush fire near Be’eri that was ignited by kites flown by Palestinians, near the border with the Gaza Strip, in 2020.

My Word: The 'fight or flight' kite dilemma - opinion

The world media is full of sob stories of poor refugee children threatened by Israeli might. That Israeli children are learning to be wary of kites and balloons, does not seem to bother them.

|ByLIAT COLLINS
A view of homes destroyed and burned in the Hamas October 7, 2023 massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Israel-Gaza border, August 5, 2026.

Majority of residents have not returned to Kibbutz Nir Oz after October 7, chairman says

"I didn't think it would take so much time to recover," he said. "We're not giving up. Kibbutz Nir Oz will prosper so that new families will come."

|ByTZVI JASPER
Smoke and a fire ball rise during an Israeli strike, carried out after the military warned Palestinian residents to evacuate the area of al-Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip, on August 23, 2026.

Board of Peace demands Israel comply with Gaza ceasefire, calls for end to kite attacks

Israeli officials warned the BoP on Sunday that Israel would escalate its activity in the Gaza Strip if the launches were not halted within 72 hours, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.

|ByAMICHAI STEIN

World Cup used to raise global awareness about Gaza kite terrorism

The equivalent of 5,000 soccer fields of land were destroyed by Hamas-orchestrated arson.

JULY 15, 2018ByILANIT CHERNICK
A kite flies over the border in an area where kites and balloons have caused blazes, between Israel and the Gaza strip June 8, 2018.

Scorched earth and international law

Judging from recent events, it seems that the war of attrition launched against the nascent State of Israel in 1948 has not ended, only morphed.

JULY 14, 2018ByMICHAL COTLER-WUNSH
Palestinians prepare an incendiary device attached to a kite before trying to fly it over the border fence with Israel, on the eastern outskirts of Jabalia, on May 4, 2018.

Int'l Christian Embassy donates firefighting gear to Gaza border region

The system, which can be hitched to a car and pulled as a trailer, allows community to respond quickly to fires started by incendiary kites and balloons.

JULY 8, 2018ByYASSER OKBI/MAARIV
Firefighting trailer donated to Eshkol Regional Council by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, July 8, 2018

Trump moves are killing two-state solution, Palestinian PM spokesman says

Palestinian Authority boycotting Trump administration "because of the unilateral and baseless declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital" of Israel, Ahmad Shami says.

JULY 3, 2018ByFELICE FRIEDSON/THE MEDIA LINE
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim Israel has exaggerated incendiary kite threat

Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza claim to have fired about 300 burning kites since the return marches began at the end of March, a number Israeli sources claim is understated.

JULY 2, 2018ByDIMA ABUMARIA/ THE MEDIA LINE
Palestinians prepare an incendiary device attached to a kite before trying to fly it over the border fence with Israel, on the eastern outskirts of Jabalia, on May 4, 2018.

12 fires rage in the Negev from terror kites, balloons

JULY 1, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Fires rage in southern Israel as a result of incendiary kites and balloons launched from the Gaza Strip

Fighting kite terror

The IDF deploys new technology to put an end to the launching of incendiary objects from Gaza

JUNE 27, 2018ByMARK WEISS
Palestinians in central Gaza fly a kite loaded with flammable material to be thrown at Israel

The Gazan kite offensive and the arc of human progress

Israel continues to become more innovative, powerful and wealthy. Simultaneously, the Palestinians slide evermore backward and grow weaker as an outcome of its military innovation.

JUNE 24, 2018ByDAN FEFERMAN
A DRONE FLOWN by IDF soldiers trying to intercept Palestinian kites and balloons loaded with flammable materials, is pictured near Kissufim Tuesday.

The fields of the Negev

What good will it do them? What will they get from all the tunnels they dig, the rockets they shoot at us and the fires they set? Nothing.

JUNE 24, 2018ByGILAD SHARON
Gazan demonstrators launch a kite with a Molotov cocktail attached into Israeli territory. It lands within Gaza's borders

IDF uncovers Hamas's operating system for kite terror

The Hamas operatives who receive the orders, produce the kites and balloons and then attach the firebombs which they receive from Hamas resources.

JUNE 24, 2018ByJULIANE HELMHOLD
Palestinians prepare an incendiary device attached to a kite before trying to fly it over the border fence with Israel, on the eastern outskirts of Jabalia, on May 4, 2018.