{"id":260406,"date":"2026-08-22T16:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:58:13","slug":"four-kites-cross-from-gaza-strip-into-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260406\/","title":{"rendered":"Four kites cross from Gaza Strip into Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four kites that officials believe crossed over from the Gaza Strip<\/a> were found in the Kibbutz Nahal Oz area in the past 24 hours, the IDF confirmed on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The IDF emphasized in its statement that it found no suspicious items on the kites and that the public was in no danger.<\/p>\n

Uri Epstein, head of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, demanded a stronger IDF response.<\/p>\n

“We demand that the IDF<\/a> act against every kite that crosses into Israeli territory, locate it, and deal with it in a timely manner. Not after it has landed. Not in retrospect. In real time,” Epstein said<\/p>\n

“After October 7, we will no longer receive the words ‘it will be okay,’ the writing is already in the sky.”<\/p>\n

The Atid LaOtef movement also warned that the kites should not be dismissed as harmless but should be investigated.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour kites in less than 24 hours join a series of similar incidents in recent weeks,\u201d the movement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a mistake to treat this as an innocent or isolated incident. Against the backdrop of developments in the Gaza Strip, the defense establishment must examine the phenomenon as a whole and determine who is behind it and for what purpose,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Head of Yisrael Beytenu, MK Avigdor Liberman<\/a>, also called for stronger action, writing that “whoever allows explosive balloons and kites will receive rockets and missiles,” in a post on X\/Twitter, adding that this mirrored the situation from before the October 7 massacre.<\/p>\n

“The government of the massacre has learned nothing and is bringing us closer to another disaster,” he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four kites that officials believe crossed over from the Gaza Strip were found in the Kibbutz Nahal Oz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[10842,496,34059,2254,423,37],"class_list":["post-260406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-avigdor-liberman","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-border-communities","tag-gaza-strip","tag-idf","tag-israel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117140226170188993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}