Balloons Carry Terrorist Explosives into Israel

Stand for Israel  |  August 11, 2020

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Masked Palestinians prepare flammable objects before attaching them to balloons to be flown toward Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 8, 2020. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Yesterday, Stand for Israel told you about the latest warning Hamas sent from Gaza. But warnings aren’t all the terrorists sent. Our friends at i24NEWS report that balloons carrying explosive devices also landed in southern Israel:

An explosive device attached to a cluster of balloons was discovered on Saturday morning in a field near Kibbutz Nir Oz, an Israeli town bordering the Gaza Strip in the south…

“A suspicious object attached to a group of balloons was located in an agricultural area of ​​the town, a police sapper and security staff were dispatched to the site to neutralize the device,” the Eshkol regional council said in a statement.

“We would like to recall that during such incidents, it is strictly forbidden to approach the suspicious object, and it is imperative to alert the security personnel,” the statement added.

The presence of the balloons comes following a string of similar incidents in the area last week…

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