The weapons of the poor in Gaza

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For months, Palestinians in the Gaza strip, flying a kite with fire records, the to Israel over labor. There are severe damage. In Tel Aviv, politicians and military officials to discuss possible reactions.

The leg of the bird wall hung a thin wire, at the end of a container with a flammable liquid. The Falcon had settled in the vicinity of the armistice line between Gaza strip and Israel, where inspectors of the Israel nature and Park authority found him – abused as a animal fire set by his Palestinian holders intended to set the fields of the hated neighbours in a fire.

Since the spring of Israelis see themselves as a new strategy by militant Palestinians from the Gaza strip exposed, a kind of cheap version of warfare. Countless with fire or explosives is provided with the dragon, and gas-filled balloons ascended since then, of Palestinian land in the sky, and then by the Wind over the border, worn, sometime down todecline, and to ignite in the dry Season a fire.

Ten to twenty fires a day, the Israelis register, over a thousand are so far in total. Around 2600 hectares of Land were, according to Israeli data, as yet, in flames, property damage in the millions. In addition, the arms have a huge psychological effect: The border area on the Gaza strip has seen a drastic decline in tourism.

Shots on young people?

In the Palestinian media, the attacks are seen as a successful political strategy. The shortest way to stop you, is it in the East Jerusalem newspaper “Al-Quds”, is it that the Palestinians of their rights to: “the right of return and self-determination and to the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital”.

Cheaper war: Palestinian youth in the Gaza strip to prepare burning dragon

In Israel, politicians and military leaders are currently discussing intensively the question of how to respond to the attacks with dragons. While it is possible that the dragon with drones to intercept. However, also other possibilities will be discussed. “They (the Palestinians in the Gaza strip, Anm. d – Red.) will pay a price, as you pay a price if they are firing rockets,” said transport Minister Israel Katz.

The chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces, Gadi Eizenkot, however, considers that it is inappropriate to target children and young people. Because most of them were there, which made the balloon rise. To you he would not launch attacks, he said.

Risks of a military response

The Palestinian newspaper “Al Quds” wrote that the attacks of the military on young people, the kites, you would recall the practice of “bone-breaking” during the first Intifada. During the 1987 outbreak of the uprising, the then defence should have arranged the Minister Yitzchak Rabin, militants of the “break the bones”. This may be a metaphorical been understood by Parts of the military, but literally – and accordingly executed. A similar rigorous approach no longer want to practice, the Israeli military and politicians. Also in Israel itself, the massive actions of the military are controversial.

In Israel, a controversial one: hard military operations in the Gaza strip as from may 14. July

In addition, the military does not want to tolerate the in the vicinity of the Gaza strip citizens living a war as much as possible. They know that to be expected in such a case would be: with heavy fire from the Gaza strip, evacuation, casualties among the civilian population and among the soldiers.

Between the high-feeling, and fainting

Also, Hamas is not afraid of a heavy weapons gear. The radical Islamic organization-wide Parts of the in the Gaza strip, Palestinians living controversial. So your coming is expected to the attacks with dragons and balloons from a propagandistic point of view, though, because they limited a – Power symbolized, assumes the Internet-the magazine “Al-Monitor”. “Desperate as she is, has Hamas found the weapons for the Weak”, it says.

However, Hamas is likely to shy away from after the Wars of 2008, 2012 and 2014 a further war against Israel. Because a repeated destruction of parts of the Gaza strip is expected to raise the population even more against them.

With the “weapons of the poor” have to fight Palestinians, for created an Empire’s war Arsenal. There is a high risk, however. Because Israel is able to counter these weapons to proceed – albeit in a probably inevitable-seeming Form of oversized. A possible war would be for both sides at a high price.

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