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<h1 class="title">Gaza's 'incendiary kites unit' to escalate fires
until siege lifted</h1>
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<div class="stamp">July 18, 2018 - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780441">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780441</a></font><br>
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src="http://www.maannews.com/Photos/475385C.jpg" alt="">GAZA CITY
(Ma'an) -- The "incendiary kites unit" of the Gaza Strip announced
on Wednesday that the amount of incendiary kites and balloons
targeting Israeli areas surrounding Gaza would increase as a
response to the increased siege on the Gaza Strip.<br>
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<div>The unit, calling themselves the "Sons of Zouari" in reference
to Tunisian engineer assassinated by the Israeli Mossad, d<span
style="font-size: 11pt;">enied any reports published by Israeli
Hebrew-language media, that the Hamas movement will stop the
launch of more incendiary kites and explosive balloons or that
the amount of launched kites would decrease within the next 72
hours.<br>
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<div>The unit said in a statement that their peaceful resistance
will continue until their demands are met and until the siege of
the Gaza Strip is lifted.<br>
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<div>The statement added that factions in the Gaza Strip would not
stand between them and peaceful resistance.</div>
<div>The announcement came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s decision to impose severe economic sanctions by
closing Gaza Strip's main commercial crossing, Kerem Shalom, and
limiting the Palestinian coastal enclave's fishing zone in
response to the protests in form of incendiary balloons across the
borders.<br>
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About 6,000 dunams (1482.6 acres) of agricultural produce as well as
thousands of dunams of open fields were <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780377"
target="_blank">burned</a> due to about 678 fires caused by
incendiary kites and balloons flown from inside the Gaza Strip into
Israel.
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