| | ''Hamas continues to organize and allow a high level of violence against the IDF and protects the launchers of balloons and kites, the perpetrators of "arson terror," by firing rockets and mortar shells.''</ref><ref>[https://www.srugim.co.il/282170-%d7%91%d7%9c%d7%aa%d7%99-%d7%a0%d7%aa%d7%a4%d7%a1%d7%94%d7%a0%d7%aa%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9e%d7%90%d7%97%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%99-%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%94%d7%91%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%9d Inconceivable: The data behind the balloon terror is revealed] Guy Ezra, Srugim News, Oct 9, 2018. | | ''Hamas continues to organize and allow a high level of violence against the IDF and protects the launchers of balloons and kites, the perpetrators of "arson terror," by firing rockets and mortar shells.''</ref><ref>[https://www.srugim.co.il/282170-%d7%91%d7%9c%d7%aa%d7%99-%d7%a0%d7%aa%d7%a4%d7%a1%d7%94%d7%a0%d7%aa%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9e%d7%90%d7%97%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%99-%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%94%d7%91%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%9d Inconceivable: The data behind the balloon terror is revealed] Guy Ezra, Srugim News, Oct 9, 2018. |
| | ''Half a year since the beginning of kite terror and incendiary balloons, today the heavy environmental price has been exposed. When KKL-JNF data show that 11,920 dunams of forest and natural forest have gone up in flames in recent months.''</ref> By July 10 of that year, incendiary kites and balloons started 678 fires in Israel, burning 910 hectares (2,260 acres) of woodland, 610 hectares (1,500 acres) of agricultural crops, as well as open field.<ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5307517,00.html Kite, balloon terrorism continues scorching Israel's land], Matan Tzuri, Ynet, July 10, 2018.</ref> | | ''Half a year since the beginning of kite terror and incendiary balloons, today the heavy environmental price has been exposed. When KKL-JNF data show that 11,920 dunams of forest and natural forest have gone up in flames in recent months.''</ref> By July 10 of that year, incendiary kites and balloons started 678 fires in Israel, burning 910 hectares (2,260 acres) of woodland, 610 hectares (1,500 acres) of agricultural crops, as well as open field.<ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5307517,00.html Kite, balloon terrorism continues scorching Israel's land], Matan Tzuri, Ynet, July 10, 2018.</ref> |