[IsraelTimes] Thousands of Paleostinians gather at security fence in nighttime protest, hurl stones at IDF soldiers, burn tires, and launch airborne incendiary devicesTwo Paleostinians were seriously injured by Israeli fire in festivities along the Gazoo border on Tuesday evening, according to Paleostinian media reports.
Thousands of Gazooks had gathered at various points along the border with Israel to participate in the nighttime protest, which saw demonstrators burn tires, throw rocks at Israeli soldiers, and launch arson balloons into Israel, the reports said.
The Israel Defense Forces responded to the violence with live fire, injuring two Paleostinians, according to the reports.
Earlier on Tuesday, firefighters said they battled 12 fires in southern Israel that were sparked by the airborne incendiary devices flown over the border. All of the fires were put out or under control by Tuesday evening, fire and rescue services said.
The return of the fire balloons come as tensions along the Gazoo-Israel frontier have ramped back up after a brief lull, with the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group leading weekly marches on the fence. The last several days have also seen smaller nightly protests along the border.
The nighttime protest on Tuesday comes days after Gazoo’s Hamas rulers called to step up the ongoing border protests in the wake of a report that Egypt-led efforts to broker a long-term ceasefire agreement with Israel had stalled. Hamas later denied reports the talks had collapsed, but the terror group’s front man Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
admitted that progress was slow.
A surge of violence in Gazoo began in March with a series of protests along the border that were dubbed the "March of Return."
The festivities, which Israel says are being orchestrated by Gazoo’s Hamas rulers, have included regular rock and Molotov cocktail attacks on troops, as well as shooting and IED attacks aimed at IDF soldiers and attempts to breach the border fence.