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Parks officials say
attached harness suggests bird may have been launched deliberately from Gaza to
start fires in Israel
By TOI
STAFF17 July 2018,
A falcon found dead in a tree, tied
to an incendiary device, on July 16, 2018, near the Gaza border
A falcon was
discovered near the Gaza border on Monday with strings attached that contained
flammable material.
The falcon was found
dead, hanging by the attached string from a burned tree near the Nahal Habesor
riverbed.
It was not
immediately clear if the bird was launched from Gaza to spark fires in Israel,
as Gazans have done hundreds of time in recent weeks with kites and balloons,
or if the predatory animal attempted to attack a balloon or kite carrying an
incendiary device and became ensnared in its attached strings.
The falcon was found
on a day when firefighters battled 15 separate fires started by Gazan kites and
balloons in the border region.
Nature and Parks
Authority officials who examined the bird said it wore a harness, suggesting it
was a trained hunting bird, and strengthening speculation that it was
deliberately sent to start fires, the Ynet news site reported.
The falcon is a
common bird in Israel, and regularly attacks other birds in the air.
If it was
deliberately sent to Israel from Gaza to start fires, it would mark the first time
Gazans have used an animal to start such fires.
Israel has accused
Gazans of using kites, balloons, drones and helium-filled condoms to launch
incendiary devices into Israel.
Hundreds of fires
have been started in southern Israel by the devices, burning thousands of acres
of forest, farmland and brush over the past two months.
Animal exploitation? Are there no levels to which Hamas will not stoop?
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