Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip

The Israeli Air Force today launched airstrikes against positions of Islamist organizations in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the use of balloons with improvised incendiary devices that caused fires in the southern part of the country.

The Israeli Air Force struck training facilities without any reports of injuries, said sources close to the security services of the Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Palestinian enclave.

“In response to the incendiary balloons fired from Gaza into Israel, fighter jets struck a facility where weapons belonging to Hamas were being manufactured,” the Israeli military said in a statement.

Yesterday, four fires broke out in Israel due to improvised incendiary devices, according to a statement from the Israeli fire brigade.

“Four fires broke out in the Eskol area,” near the Gaza Strip, the fire brigade said, adding that experts concluded the cause was “incendiary balloons”.

The small fires were quickly extinguished, according to the same source.

On June 18, the Israeli Air Force also bombed Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for firing balloons with adapted incendiary devices at Israel.

It was the second in a series of strikes since the ceasefire came into force on May 21, ending the 11-day war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a poor Palestinian enclave of two million people that is under Israeli siege. more than 15 years.

From May 10 to 21, 260 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, including fighters, according to local authorities. In Israel, rocket fire from Gaza killed 13 people, including a soldier, police and army.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday during a military ceremony that Israel “is not happy to fight” but when it deems it “necessary”, “will not hesitate” to give a “massive and strong response”.