Thats how an incendiary balloon from Gaza starts a fire

A new video of an incendiary balloon from Gaza found today at the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council shows how the seemingly innocent-looking playthings have caused fires that consumed thousands of dunams of farmland and forests in Israeli territory.

The video shows how the delayed incendiary mechanism works, with the fire starting shortly after the balloon has landed.

The fire caused by this incendiary balloon was put out within minutes, causing no damage.

While the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip has stopped since the last round of hostilities last week, the incendiary balloons and kites continue flying into Israel unabated.

A second balloon, in addition to the one seen in the video, landed in front of the Holocaust monument in Sderot on Sunday.

Five fires broke out in the Gaza border area on Saturday as a result of incendiary balloons and kites. Another incendiary balloon was found near a dining room at one of the communities in the Eshkol Regional Council.

In response, the IDF carried out one 3 attacks against incendiary balloon launchers in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports. One Palestinian was lightly wounded in the third strike.

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During the past 4 months 1000-1200 fires broke out by such flaming devices sent from Gaza, causing vast damages to agriculture fields and nature.

Some 100 residents living near the Gaza border protested in Tel Aviv yesterday against what they said was the government's helplessness in dealing with the security situation in the Gaza border area and the western Negev. The protesters held up signs saying, among other things, "Israel is burning, we demand security."