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Palestinians prepare an incendiary device to be launched near the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 18, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Tense weekend sees stabbing attacks, explosive balloons from Gaza Strip

An Israeli man was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack on Saturday in Kiryat Arba near Hebron in Judea and Samaria, the Israel Police reported. Moshe Greenblatt, 22, was rushed to a local hospital for...
Palestinians prepare balloons that will be attached to flammable material to be launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip, on June 25, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.

Arson balloon attacks on southern Israel resume

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A fire that broke out on Wednesday in the Gaza-adjacent Simhoni forest was the result of an arson balloon flown over the Gaza border fence, an arson investigator from the Ashkelon Fire and Rescue...
Firefighters extinguish the remains of a fire in in Mevo Modi'im on May 24, 2019. Photo by Avi Dishi/Flash90.

Israel’s fire authority declares all blazes, both wildfires and arson, have been extinguished

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Israel’s National Fire and Rescue Authority announced on Saturday night that it had succeeded in containing the massive rash of fires which ripped through the country in recent days, causing the evacuation of 3,500...
Palestinians prepare balloons that will be attached to flammable material during clashes with Israeli security forces on the Gaza-Israeli border on Aug. 10, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

IDF aircraft strikes groups of Gazans launching incendiary balloons towards border

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Israeli military aircraft shot two groups of Palestinians who launched incendiary balloons from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, announced the Israel Defense Forces. This comes days after the IDF retaliated, hitting dozens of “terror sites” in...
An Iron Dome missile-defense battery set up near the southern Israeli town of Ashdod fires an intercepting missile on July 16, 2014. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israel strikes Hamas naval commando base after rocket fired at Israel

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Tensions along the Gaza border escalated on Thursday when Israeli warplanes responded to a mortar shell fired at southern Israel with a strike on a Hamas naval commando base. “Fighter jets and aircraft struck several...
Palestinians prepare balloons that will be attached to flammable material during clashes with Israeli security forces on the Gaza-Israeli border on Aug. 10, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

‘Terror balloons’ from Hamas in Gaza land in children’s play area before school day

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A children’s playground was cordoned off in Kiryat Gat on Friday morning, when police were alerted to a bunch of “terror balloons” launched from Gaza that landed in a residential play area before the...
Palestinians stage another weekly Friday demonstration as part of the "March of Return" near the Gaza-Israel border on May 4, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Israel closes Erez Crossing in wake of violent Hamas riots

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Israel’s Defense Ministry has closed the Erez Crossing, the northern entry from Israel into Gaza, following violent riots by Gazans on the border on Friday. The decision to close the pedestrian crossing comes just days...
The suspicious balloons in Be'er Sheva. Source: Police spokesman

Terror balloons land in Beersheva, deeper into Israel

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For the first time, an incendiary “terror balloon” from Gaza landed in the ancient city of Beersheva on Monday, raising concerns that terrorists are attempting to cause arson fires deeper inside Israel and in...
View from the scorched Be’eri forest in southern Israel, caused by the many airborne firebombs launched by Gazans, many of them children and teens, into Israel. July 20, 2018. Photo by Yaniv Nadav/Flash90.

UN exhibit in New York shows fire damage in Israel from incendiary kites and...

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An exhibition featured at the U.N. headquarters in New York this week will show viewers the damage that Gazan terror kites and flammable balloons have caused inside Israel. An initiative of Yesh Atid Party Knesset...
A fire breaks out near Sderot in southern Israel last week as a result of a Hamas-launched incendiary device. Credit: Josh Hasten.

Strategic Affairs Ministry leads tour of beleaguered Gaza-area region

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Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs led a group of more than 30 pro-Israel social-media professionals on Tuesday on a guided tour in English of the Israel-Gaza border region. The goal was to showcase the vast...