Hi,
They say that is enough to have one match to set on fire a whole forest. It seems that the Palestinians understand it and took it further. In those days, after the hot waves of Hamsin the fields are around the time of harvest and are full with dry straw. There are fires all over the country: Mount socups in Jerusalem, In Kadoorie, in the Zavitan stream, near Yoqneam, near Tirat Zvi.
But throwing a can with fuel in it, can also start a fire. And the terrorists using kites to get the cans of fuel to the other side of the border of Gaza strip. Easy and simple – just to burn people straw and corrupt the field – kite terror, leaving black fields. A day before yesterday, 17 fires were lit.
Until now this terror didn’t cost in human life, but this is only because the firefighters are working non-stop to prevent the fire to get to the settlements. But those 600 terror kite, set on fire over 10,000 dunam made a damage of about 50 million NIS. The IDF is fighting it with a ‘kite unit’ of UAV which intercept most of it, but not all.
Here are some of the daily fire sets:
09.06.2018 – Seventeen fires
Take care
Gad
Kite terror near Sapir Collage
Terror kite (source: flicker)
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