[IsraelTimes] Latest cross-border confrontation comes as cabinet considers truce deal for the StripIDF aircraft fired on Paleostinian operatives launching incendiary balloons into Israel on Sunday, the military said.
The IDF also said it struck a vehicle that was being used by a second cell in the northern Gazoo Strip to launch the balloons.
The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run Health Ministry said four people were maimed in an Israeli attack on the northern Gazoo Strip.
Firefighters on Sunday worked to extinguish a blaze caused by an incendiary balloon near Kibbutz Nir Am adjacent to the Gazoo Strip, a front man for the Israeli Fire and Rescue Services said.
The incidents came shortly before a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, in which ministers were set to consider an Egyptian-backed truce plan for the Gazoo Strip.
The Israeli military has been steadily escalating its strikes in recent days against the ongoing incendiary balloon attacks.
Firefighters extinguish 6 fires in Gaza vicinity
[Ynet] Since Sunday morning, six fires broke out in the Gazoo vicinity due to incendiary balloons. Firefighting forces, with the assistance of the IDF, the JNF, the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority, and the military security coordinators in the Gazoo vicinity area extinguished six different fires that broke out as a result of incendiary balloons launched from the Gazoo Strip.
Three Palestinians shot while moving barbed wire
[Ynet] Paleostinians report that three Gazoo residents were shot and injured while attempting to move barbed wire on the security fence on the Gazoo border.
Son of top Hamas commander said injured in Gaza border clash
[IsraelTimes] Reports in Paleostinian media say three Gazooks are injured by IDF fire after they tried to move barbed wire on the security fence, east of El-Bureij in the center of the Strip. Media site Paleostine Info says the son of senior Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", military commander Marwan Issa was shot in the foot by Israeli troops.
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They said the facility, north of Beit Lahiya, was used by a small group known as al-Mujahedeen, which despite its name that means holy warriors in Arabic is not a Salafist movement.