The Kites Unit at the Great March of Return announced that it will fly 5000 balloons and fire kites on the first day of Eid al-Fitr towards Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
The Kites Unit said during a press conference on Thursday that it would fly 5000 balloons and fire kites on the morning of the first day of Eid from all areas of Gaza Strip towards the 1948 occupied territories.
“At a time when the siege is intensifying and in light of the ongoing aggression and the continuation of the Great March of Return we are preparing balloons and fire kites to burn the lands of Israeli settlers” the Unit added.
“We will continue with all our strength until our goals are achieved and the settlers will not enjoy security and stability until the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip is lifted” said one of the unit’s spokesmen.
The unit gave the occupation government a few days to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip “Otherwise we will make settlers living around the Gaza Strip live just like us under the siege of fire kites and balloons. The siege will no longer burn us alone.”
The spokesman pointed out that young people have developed their work individually and collectively and that they will use balloons that will reach up to more than 40 kilometers to increase the area of fire.
Meanwhile an Israeli drone targeted on Thursday a group of Palestinian youths east of al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
One of the survivors of the raid told the PIC: “The youths were flying fire kites and balloons from tents erected at the Great March of Return before they were targeted by a drone with a missile that fell next to them and caused material damage to one of the tents.”
Two and a half hours later a drone fired a second missile at another group preparing to launch kites causing material damage to a water tank inside one of the tents and no injuries were reported.
Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip had suffered significant losses by those fire kites and balloons after vast tracts of their fields were damaged by resultant fires.
