Posted on 07/03/21
| News Source: JPost
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked targets in Gaza on Saturday in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip throughout the weekend, Israeli media reported. IDF aircrafts attacked a Hamas rocket launching pad and weapons manufacturing facility following a bushfire that broke out on Saturday afternoon in the Eshkol Regional Council near the Gaza border. A spokesperson for Israel Fire and Rescue Services reported that the fire was caused by an incendiary balloon launched from Gaza.
This is the second time this week that the IAF has targeted Gaza. On Thursday, an IAF aircraft struck another Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons that were launched earlier that day, causing four fires to break out in several Jewish localities in the Eshkol Regional Council close to the Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit reported.Tensions have been rising this week after Israel demolished a Palestinian shop in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Tuesday, triggering clashes between police and protesters who accused authorities of discriminatory enforcement of building permits in the holy city.