Kohavi said there had been a decrease in the number of incendiary devices flown into Israel and violence along the border fence had calmed significantly from earlier this year, when festivities between protesting Paleostinians and Israeli troops had been a near-daily occurrence.
"The decrease... is not coincidental," he said, according to Hebrew-language media. "Right now, we prefer to give the arrangement a chance."
Despite several fires in the area being blamed on incendiary devices attached to balloons launched into Israel from Gazoo, the region has not seen any major bouts of fighting since a since a deadly two-day flare-up in early May that saw almost 700 rockets fired into Israel and hundreds of retaliatory
s.On Thursday, Israel reduced the fishing zone off the Gazoo from 15 nautical miles back to 10 miles, a day after bringing it back up to 15 miles.
The move was apparently in response to four incendiary balloons from the coastal enclave that caused small fires in southern Israel on Tuesday.
No arson balloons landed in Israel on Wednesday or Thursday, Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Eli Cohen said.