Train travel was suspended on Sunday between Ashkelon and Netivot in the 1948 occupied Palestine after a massive fire flared up near Sderot by a flaming kite launched from the Gaza Strip Walla website reported.
Hebrew TV channel 14 said that other fires were witnessed on Sunday morning in Yad Mordechai and Nir Am settlements sparked by flaming kites from Gaza.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that Gaza’s fire kites destroyed about 3000 dunums of farmlands on Saturday while nearly 28000 dunums have been burned since the start of the Great Return March protests.
The Hebrew TV channel Two said quoting mayor of western Negev Danny Ben-David that Gaza’s fire kites have caused losses equivalent to hundreds of thousands of shekels.
Burning kites are one of the tools used by Palestinian youths in the Gaza Strip to confuse the Israeli snipers shooting at peaceful protesters taking part in the Great Return March near the border.
