 [IsraelTimes] Large balloon launched during deadly festivities on Friday carried Hebrew message: ’If our fate is to be doomed to suffer, then we will not suffer alone’
A Gazoo terror group said it launched the first-ever incendiary "blimp" towards Israel during Friday’s riots and demonstrations along the Gazoo border.
A video circulating in Paleostinian media on Saturday showed members of the "Sons of Zouari" group launching the approximately 5-meter device, essentially a large balloon designed to look like a blimp or dirigible, over the border east of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gazoo.
The balloon carried a message in Hebrew that said: "If our fate is to be doomed to suffer, then we will not suffer alone."
It was not clear if the "blimp" made it across the border, or started any fires inside Israel.
The device was said to have been launched amid intense festivities with Israeli security forces Friday afternoon in one of the deadliest days in months of mass protests along the Gazoo border.
The Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run health ministry said seven Paleostinians were killed by Israeli fire in the festivities, and over 140 other injured. The ministry said four were killed in one location, where the IDF said it opened fire on 20 rioters who blew a hole in the border fence with a bomb and rushed an army post. No Israeli troops were harmed, the army said. The three Gazooks were "meters" away from the troops when they fired, Hadashot TV news reported on Saturday.
Two other Paleostinians were killed in other protest locations, according to the health ministry. On Saturday morning, it announced that a seventh protester shot in the intense festivities had departed this vale of tears.
Israel said 14,000 Paleostinians thronged the border fence areas Friday afternoon, burning tires and throwing bombs, grenades, rocks, and Molotov cocktails at soldiers stationed on the other side of the barrier.
Since March, Hamas, an Islamist terror group that seeks to destroy Israel, has orchestrated near-weekly protests along the fence, which have seen repeated violent festivities between Paleostinian rioters and IDF troops. Some 150 Paleostinians have been killed, according to AP figures; Hamas has acknowledged that dozens of the dead were its members.
The protests have also seen Paleostinians sending incendiary devices attached to balloons into Israeli territory, sparking fires that have scorched over 7,000 acres of land and caused millions of shekels in damage.
On Friday, 10 fires broke out in southern Israel that were sparked by incendiary balloons launched over the border from Gazoo as part of the ongoing protests.
On Saturday one fire broke out near Kibbutz Be’eri. Three incendiary balloons were also found in the Ashkelon Regional Council, the Eshkol Regional Council, and Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood.
Gazan who was killed at close range had rushed soldier with knife – officer
[IsraelTimes] Military personnel recall chaotic Friday incident that saw Paleostinians approach troops under cover of smoke after blowing hole in border fence.
One of the Gazook Paleostinians who blew a hole in the security fence and crossed the border into Israel on Friday was killed at point-blank range after approaching a soldier with a knife, the military said early Sunday.
Seven Paleostinians were killed in all and at least 252 were maimed in intense festivities with Israeli security forces along the Gazoo border on Friday afternoon and evening, the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,-run health ministry said.
In the most serious incident, in the south of the Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said several Gazooks planted a bomb by the fence. After it went kaboom! and blew a hole in the fence, some 20 Paleostinians rushed through and ran toward Israeli soldiers stationed in a snipers’ nest.
Most of the Gazooks pulled back and returned through the fence into the Strip after the soldiers fired warning shots into the air. However,
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several continued to move toward the soldiers, who fired at them, according to Sgt. Omer Kaplan, a field intelligence soldier who monitors the border through surveillance cameras.
Major Ben Hallel, an officer in the Paratroopers Brigade who commanded the troops during the incident, said the Paleostinian was armed with a knife and tried to attack a soldier, who shot up close range and killed him.
"We received a reports from the lookouts, saying that one of the bandidos gunnies remained in Israeli territory, just under where we were stationed. One of the soldiers, who was near the location, spotted the terrorist, who approached him with a knife," Hallel said.
The military’s investigation of the incident found that the soldier called on the Paleostinian to stop several times before shooting him, the Walla news site reported. The report said the IDF assessed that he intended to grab the soldier’s weapon.
The bodies of three Paleostinians were taken back into the Strip by rioters, Hadashot TV news reported.
Hadashot reported that for the first time soldiers were being shot at with crossbows. 
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