Israeli Air Force Targets Palestinian with ‘Flaming Kites’ (VIDEO)

June 17, 2018 Blog, Videos
Palestinian teenagers prepare their 'flaming kites' near the Gaza fence. (Photo: via Twitter)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

Three Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli fire, Gaza’s health ministry said. The wounded Palestinians were reportedly flying ‘flaming kites’ at the fence separating besieged Gaza from Israel.

Flying kites is one of the many ways of protest carried out by thousands of youth at the Gaza fence since the start of the Great March of Return on March 30.

Since then, thousands of Gazans have demanded their ‘Right of Return’ to their homes in historic Palestine, now Israel, in accordance with international law.

Creative resistance has been part and parcel of Palestinian mobilization for decades; the most vivid display of this type of resistance dates back to 1987.

In December 1987, the Stones Intifada (First Uprising) set off six year long non-violent protests against the Israeli occupation. The uprising began when four Palestinian workers were run over by an Israeli truck in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip.

The Intifada was a collective act of civil disobedience that rolled out throughout occupied Palestinian areas and manifested in general strikes and mass demonstrations.

During this time Palestinian youngsters perfected the use of multiple tools of resistance, including stone throwing and slingshots.

Today in Gaza, another generation of youth are flying their ‘flaming kites’ across the fences, where they have been trapped for over 11 years. During those years three major Israeli wars were carried out, resulting in the death of thousands of mostly civilians.

The fiery kites are meant to distract Israel snipers who have killed over 130 protesters and wounded over 13,000 more.

Israel’s internal security minister reportedly stated that the army is seeking ‘ethical technological solutions’ to stop the ‘threat’ of kites; however, the new policy now in place allows the Israeli army and air force to treat those flying kites the same way as fighters firing rockets.

(PC, Social Media)

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  1. I am from Vancouver,Canada and I wanted to say that during the Vietnam War the Vietnamese People used all kinds of ways to defeat the Yankee Invaders.The Palestinian People got the right to do the same.I was in Vietnam in the 1990s. I visited the War Crimes Museum in Ho Chi Ming City and seen the different ways the Vietnamese used to capture the Yankees.The majority of people in the world supports the people of Gaza and whatever way they uses to defeat the Israeli Occupiers of Palestine.

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