Rioters on Gaza border blow hole through fence, attempt attack on IDF
Approximately 14 thousand rioters gathered along the Gaza border on Friday evening.IDF Kills Group of Palestinian Terrorists Who Launched Gaza Border Attack
The rioters threw exlosive devices, grenades and Molotov cocktails, set tires on fire and threw stones at IDF soldiers along the fence.
The IDF fighters responded with open fire according to procedures for dispersing riots.
IDF soldiers recognized several terrorists that climbed over the fence on the southern side of Gaza and into Israel. The terrorists placed an explosive there that set fire to the fence.
Immediately after this, IDF soldiers recognized several terrorists that had entered Israel. They approached an IDF post. The IDF responded with open fire in their direction.
No IDF soldiers were injured and the terrorists were killed.
This is one of the more extreme cases in the last series of riots along the Gaza fence, as terrorists were able to penetrate the fence and arrive in proximity with an IDF post.
A group of Palestinian terrorists set off a bomb on the Israel-Gaza Strip border on Friday and attacked a nearby IDF position.Minister: ‘Hamas is a weak and aggressive enemy — a barking and shouting puppy’
No IDF troops were harmed in the incident. According to the Israeli military, all of the terrorists were killed.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, said 20 terrorists entered Israel through a hole in the border fence created by an improvised explosive device.
A few new details: some 20 terrorists crossed through the hole created by the IED, about 5 assaulted the IDF position and were repelled. This was an ORGANIZED ATTACK, their ultimate intention still unknown. More to follow. https://t.co/NSs4uiJD6k— Jonathan Conricus (@LTCJonathan) October 12, 2018
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said six Palestinians were killed by the IDF during violent disturbances on the border on Friday.
Israel accuses Hamas of orchestrating the weekly border riots that have taken place since March to provide cover for attacks.
Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday slammed Hamas for its actions in Gaza, saying it is “using the blood of civilians to provoke international attention.”Hamas leader: We won’t halt Gaza marches for ‘diesel fuel and dollars’
A member of the security cabinet, Gallant told an event in Tel Aviv that Israel will not back down in the face of the actions of the terrorist group.
“If Hamas continues its provocations and this deteriorates into terrorist acts as we have seen, we will take the gloves off,” he threatened, according to Hadashot news. “Hamas will pay a heavy price,” he said.
Gallant, who headed the IDF Southern Command between 2005 and 2010, which included Operation Cast Lead — the three-week-long Gaza war that lasted from late 2008 until early 2009 — claimed the balance of power in the conflict remains in Israel’s hands at a scale of “one thousand to one.”
“They are our weakest and most aggressive enemy, a puppy that barks and shouts,” he said.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that the violence at the Gaza border will continue until the “siege on Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and all the lands of Palestine is lifted.”Gaza group unveils first-ever incendiary blimp bound for Israel
“The strength of will and the determination of our people in the March of Return will lead to victory over the crimes of the occupation,” he said during funerals for those killed in the previous day’s border riots. “The blood of the martyrs brings us closer to victory over the Zionist enemy.”
Israel on Friday halted the transfer of fuel to Gaza in response to heavy rioting and attacks at the border fence. Haniyeh said “our marches are not for diesel fuel and dollars, but a natural right of our people.”
Seven Palestinians were reported killed in intense clashes with Israeli security forces along the Gaza border Friday afternoon, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Gaza media outlets said at least 150 protesters were injured.
A Gaza group says it launched the first-ever incendiary blimp towards Israel during Friday’s riots and demonstrations along the Gaza border.
A video circulating in Palestinian media on Saturday showed members of the “Sons of Zouari” group launching the approximately 5-meter device over the border east of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
The blimp 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 blimp was launched amid intense clashes with Israeli security forces Friday afternoon in one of the deadliest days in months of mass protests along the Gaza border.
The Hamas-run health ministry said seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the clashes, 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 and rushed an army post. No Israeli troops were harmed, the army said.