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Blazing kites from Gaza set fire to Israeli wheat field
[IsraelTimes] Gazooks sent four kites affixed with flaming materials over the border on Monday, setting fire to wide swathes of a wheat field in southern Israel as Paleostinians vowed to use the new tactic to try and cause "panic and attrition among the enemy."Local farmers in the Shaar Hanegev region called the fire brigade to extinguish the blaze on the Gazoo border, which caused no injuries, but did extensive damage. Reports said that up to 100 dunams (25 acres) of wheat was destroyed. A farmer who lives near the border told Ynet news site that, "We are dealing with a new, destructive and dangerous phenomenon that it gaining momentum. Almost every day, we see the kites flying towards us." Al-Jazeera  ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi..., notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... reported Wednesday that the self-styled "Sons of Zouari" group in the Gazoo Strip announced it was responsible for the flaming kites. The group said it would burn the Israeli fields because this would deny Israelis the right to work the land they viewed as theirs, according to a clip translated and uploaded by the Middle East Media Research Institute on Monday. In an interview, one of several masked men from the Bureij refugee camp in central Gazoo told the TV station, "These are our lands, and we have the right to return to them. We say to them, we will not let them sow our lands and enjoy them. "We will burn your fields, which you harvest to pay for the bullets that you use to shoot children and peaceful unarmed demonstrators." The interviewer, who referred to Israeli citizens as "settlers," asked the man what had inspired the group. The inspiration, he replied, had come from Mohammed Zouari, a Tunisian-born member of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s military wing who oversaw the manufacture of drones flown against Israel during the 2014 Israel-Gazoo war. Zouari was assassinated in Tunisia in 2016, in a hit that Hamas blamed on Israel. The interviewee described Zouari as a man whose "new ideas and methods of resistance" were put to use in "the most glorious battles of bravery and self-sacrifice. He introduced the new method of resistance ‐ invasion by air." The man went on, "By the grace of Allah, we have managed to implement this idea in a simplified way, through popular resistance, the goal of which is to lead to panic and attrition among the enemy." In a separate interview by the Wattan News Agency on Friday, a different masked youth boasted that "we’ve developed something that everybody is talking about." He then explained how the Molotov cocktails were made, attached to kites, and released. "Allah willing, it will light up and burn fields and houses," he said. "It will get to a place where it will burn a large area." Kites carrying containers of flaming liquid have already started several fires in fields and outhouses close to the Israeli side of the border with the strip. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-24 |
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