This was the second such
in less than 24 hours.The Israeli military confirmed that one of its aircraft fired at a cell that had launched balloons toward Israel from northern Gazoo.
No injuries were reported in the airstrike, which the official Paleostinian Wafa news outlet said occurred near the northern Gazoo town of Beit Hanoun.
Multiple Paleostinian news outlets, including Wafa, reported that Israel conducted two strikes on Thursday, one near Beit Hanoun and a second east of the city of Jabaliya in the northern Gazoo Strip.
An IDF spokesperson denied the Paleostinian reports, saying he was "only familiar with one airstrike."
The southern Israeli Eshkol region reported that a number of incendiary and booby-trapped balloons had been flown into the area throughout Thursday morning.
"In addition, throughout the morning, a number of suspicious balloons were spotted and neutralized inside the region," an Eshkol spokespereson said.
At least one large cluster of dozens of balloons made its way into Israel. One balloon, carrying what appeared to be a small incendiary device, had a message taped to it, written in Hebrew and Arabic, reading: "When life here is like death, we’ll keep living near the fence."
It was not immediately clear if these balloons were launched by the same group that was targeted by the IDF strike.
21 fires break out due to incendiary balloons
[Ynet] 21 fires broke out on Thursday in the Gazoo border region due to incendiary balloons being flown from the strip into Israel.
The fires are now under control.