Two years after Palestinians first started launching flaming kites and other improvised explosive devices (IEDs) like condoms and balloons into the South, the phenomenon has yet to abate.It started with kites with burning rags or embers attached to them. Three months later, booby-trapped balloons and condoms began to be carried east toward the South, carried by winds coming off the Mediterranean Sea.While the use of kites – a popular Middle Eastern pastime – seems to have disappeared, scores of balloons and condoms with explosive devices attached to them continue to land in schoolyards, agricultural fields and highways.Though condoms or balloons bearing messages of “Happy Birthday” or “I ❤️ You” flying through the air may sound silly, the hard truth is that these primitive devices have wreaked havoc, burning thousands of hectares of land and causing millions of shekels of damage.
Could these condoms have come from the US taxpayer? The White House just said that they blocked a planned shipment of $50 million in condoms to Gaza.
That figure seems quite high. Condoms are not the most popular method of birth control in Gaza -
The UN has reported that the condoms that NGOs (including UNRWA) did ship to Gaza were often not used for their intended purpose:
It was noted that the amount of methods dispensed to NGOs doesn’t correspond to the number of beneficiaries they serve. During a focus group discussion (FGD) with the members of the FP steering committee in Gaza, a key informant at one NGO said, “We receive condoms from MOH but we use them for something else other than family planning. We use them to cover the head of the ultrasound probe during doing vaginal ultrasound”.
UNRWA almost certainly provided condoms to Hamas that were used as delivery systems for IEDs.
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