Palestinian media report that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck Thursday night targets in Gaza in response to the incendiary balloons launched earlier at Israel. More details to follow.

Photo: Walla! News

Gazans continued Thursday to launch incendiary balloons into Israeli territory.

Lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir was attacked in the Hasbani River by Arab youth. His parliamentary assistance was injured in her leg.

Police forces arrived at the scene and arrested two young Arab on suspicion of the violent act.

Ben Gvit commented, saying that “the next incident could result in murder.”

Photo: Walla! News

Five fires broke out Thursday nearby the communities living along the Gaza border, the Israel Fire and Rescue Services said in a statement.

It is the third consecutive day that Gazans are launching incendiary balloons into Israeli territory, igniting fires in open fields and forests in the western part of the Negev.

Most of them were deemed “small and not dangerous” by Israeli emergency services.

In response on overnight Tuesday, the Israel Air Force struck terror targets in the Gaza Strip. Some 20 fires erupted in the Gaza envelope at the same time when the traditional flag march took place in Jerusalem.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh will meet Morocco's main opposition party on Thursday as part of a visit to build support for the Palestinians despite the country's recent diplomatic accord with Israel.

Haniyeh arrived in Morocco on Wednesday and met the Islamist PJD, the largest party in the governing coalition, and will hold talks with several other main parties during his four-day visit.

On Thursday, he is meeting PAM and Istiqlal, two of the main opposition parties, with other party meetings scheduled before he leaves on Sunday.

The trip comes after King Mohammed VI in December agreed to improve Moroccan relations with Israel as part of a deal with the United States that also included American recognition of Rabat's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

In Morocco, the visit is seen as a way to balance ties with Israel and the Palestinians and demonstrate that despite its more friendly relations with Israel, Rabat still supports Palestinian independence hopes.

On Tuesday, King Mohammed congratulated the new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on forming a government. The king, who holds ultimate power in Morocco, backs a two-state solution with east Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital.

Youssef Albaz, the Imam of Lod, was taken into police custody last night and is being questioned under suspicion of incitement to commit acts of terrorism and violence.

The Regavim Movement filed an official complaint earlier this month, including detailed documentation of Albaz’s inflammatory, racist pronouncements and his explicit calls to his followers to commit acts of terrorism and violence. Last night’s arrest was welcomed by Regavim’s Director General in a statement released early this morning:

“The Regavim Movement applauds the initiation of law enforcement procedures against Youssef Albaz and demands that he be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The horrific violence to which the Jewish residents of Lod were subjected was fueled by the poisonous, antisemitic hate speech spewed by Imam Albaz, a member of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement. Albaz’s incitement resulted in spilled blood – the lynching murder of Yigal Yehoshua, dozens of wounded citizens and massive damage to private and public property. The time has come to make Albaz pay the price for his incitement. Better late than never.

Sheikh Yusef Elbaz Imam is the arrested this morning by the Israeli police on suspicion of incitement and violence.



Ben Gvir responded to the incident where a Sheikh from Los was arrested for inciting hate and violence by saying that: “I am glad the police responded and placed him in prison. 

I will continue to fight against terrorism and terrorists. The first stage against the arrest of the terrorist is completed, and now it is time to bring justice to those who spread hatred and incitement against Jews.”

Balloons flying over Mazkeret Batya were suspected as an incendiary attack. Police attended the scene and dismantled the threat.

When one Fatah Central Committee member posts a picture of himself kissing the blood-stained shirt of a “heroic Martyr,” and another praises Palestinian women for being special because they see “their children as insignificant compared to the homeland” and make “sounds of joy for the Martyrs,” and when a PA official talks about a young man’s death as his “crowning his struggle with Martyrdom-death,” then it is clear that the Palestinian Authority’s cult of Martyrdom worship is still flourishing.

 These also indicate that PA leaders are still promoting death as “Martyrs for Palestine”– an ideal the PA has cultivated in Palestinians for decades.

While violent riots were raging in Jerusalem, only two weeks before the recent war, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki praised Palestinian women for not grieving when losing their loved ones as do other women. 

Zaki described the priorities of Palestinian women who “view their children as insignificant compared to the homeland,” and elaborated on how they are “proud of Martyrdom, and sing for the grooms” – a reference to the belief that a Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Palestinian Islam and culture.

Photo documentation of the IDF Military Intensive Care team from the scene of the attempted terror attack at the Hizma checkpoint. 

Incendiary balloons continue to be sent towards the Gaza Envelope.

Fire and rescue teams, with the assistance of IDF drones, fire teams from the Hatzor base, and volunteers operated today to put out 4 fires, most of them in the thorny fields of the Eshkol Regional Council.

Most of the fires were small and not dangerous.

It should be noted that the full cooperation between all the forces in addition to the optimal field deployment allowed for rapid control and containment of the fires.

Fire and Rescue Investigators for Israel Southern District determined that the fires were caused by incendiary balloons.

Source: Spokesman for the Fire and Rescue Department of Israel, 📷Walla News

First report was received of an attempted stabbing and stabbing attack near the village of Hizma in the area of the "Benjamin" Regional Brigade.
Terrorist neutralized. More details to come.

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Preliminary reports have been received on a fire that broke out in the Eshkol Regional Council. The fire is suspected to be the result of incendiary balloons.

This raises the number of fires since the beginning of today to 22.

Source: Field Security News

Several fires have broken out in the Gaza Envelope as the result of incendiary balloons. Fire department teams are working at the scene. 

While it was the terror organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad that fired over 4,300 rockets into Israel in the May 2021 war, Fatah officials are openly expressing their support for the rocket attacks. 

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, for example, expressed his admiration on different occasions, “blessing the rockets” that forced Israelis to “hide” in bomb shelters.

Similarly, Zaki stated that the Palestinian “victory” was achieved partly thanks to “those in the Gaza Strip who subdued the Israeli generals and sent them to bomb shelters.” [SHMS News Agency, June 8, 2021]

At an event commemorating former Islamic Jihad Movement Secretary-General Ramadan Abdallah Shalah, the Fatah official expressed his support for the rocket barrages on Israeli cities through which Islamic Jihad’s military wing “taught the enemy an important lesson”.

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WATCH: In a moving moment, soldiers from the Home Front Command came together and sang in the southern Israeli neighborhood where 5-year-old Ido Avigal was murdered by a rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza during Operation Guardian of the Wall last month. 

The Hamas balloon unit threatened that starting tomorrow morning they will begin setting the Gaza Envelope on fire.