{"id":330581,"date":"2026-08-31T07:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330581"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:06:04","slug":"israel-threatens-to-kill-gaza-kids-who-fly-kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330581","title":{"rendered":"Israel Threatens to Kill Gaza Kids Who Fly Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Whitney \u2013 The Unz Review Aug 26, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The kite issue has been outrageous. Israeli state television had an item on terrorism kites. The state cabinet met to discuss the threat of kites. They are literally building consensus to kill playing children.<\/strong> All so that no child in Gaza can play or enjoy themselves. In Gaza, just trying to live is a crime for a child. Shaiel Ben Ephraim<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe demand that the IDF<\/a> act against every kite that crosses into Israeli territory, locate it, and deal with it in a timely manner.\u201d Uri Epstein, head of the Sha\u2019ar Hanegev Regional Council, Jerusalem Post<\/p>\n

They want to take away the one thing we love. I swear, my heart is breaking. Unnamed Palestinian child<\/p>\n

Just when you think Israel has no lower to go, they find some new depth of sadistic cruelty. What is wrong with these people? Are they really so mean-spirited that they want to take away what few toys the Palestinian kids still have? This from Aljazzera:<\/p>\n

A four-year-old child was among three Palestinians killed in Israeli air attacks in central Gaza on Sunday<\/strong>, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to escalate attacks over the alleged launching of paper kites from the war-torn enclave.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Israel fired missiles<\/a> at a warehouse in az-Zawayda, reducing it to rubble, and then carried out strikes near Salah al-Din Street, killing four-year-old Muhammad Abdel Salam Taha\u2026.. The deadly bombardment comes as Palestinian and Israeli affairs experts warn that the government is fabricating a security crisis around children\u2019s toy<\/strong>s to derail ceasefire agreements, enforce demographic changes and ensure Netanyahu\u2019s political survival.<\/p>\n

After the attack, Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Israel Katz issued a joint statement on Sunday threatening severe retaliation over the toys. <\/strong>They also threatened the forced displacement of Palestinians from areas \u201cused as launch sites for kites, drones and balloons\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n

The attacks came despite the Israeli military acknowledging that the recovered kites contained no explosives and were simply flown by children. <\/strong>While the joint statement cited \u201ckites, drones, and balloons\u201d, military inspections confirmed finding only 10 paper kites \u2013 all completely free of explosives and flown by children in displacement camps. Aljazeera<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cLaunching paper kites\u201d? Are you kidding me??<\/p>\n

What does Bibi think he\u2019s dealing with, a Tomahawk missile? A nuclear warhead?<\/p>\n

This would be laughable if the overreaction wasn\u2019t so lethal. But a four-year-child was blown to bits in this farce and Israel is promising more. They\u2019re promising to vaporize anyone who defies their insane directives. And they\u2019re deadly serious. Check out this nutso headline at the Times of Israel:<\/p>\n

IDF told to act forcefully against Gaza kites; 3 reported killed in Israeli strikes<\/strong><\/p>\n

4-year-old among Gaza dead; Netanyahu tells IDF to do \u2018everything\u2019 to counter Gaza drone threat; Katz: Kites to be treated like drones even if they have no explosives; IDF: Strikes targeted Hamas commander, arms site<\/strong><\/p>\n

(From the article\u2013 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz both said Sunday that they had instructed the IDF to take significant action after the launching of kites<\/a> from the Gaza Strip over the weekend. Subsequent Israeli strikes in Gaza on Sunday were reported to kill three people, including a young boy\u2026.<\/p>\n

At least four kites were flown from Gaza to Kibbutz Nahal Oz over the weekend. T he army said nothing suspicious was found on the kites and there was no danger to the public,<\/strong> but many have associated the objects with the Gazan kites and balloons carrying incendiary devices that plagued southern Israel in previous years.<\/p>\n

The military stressed that \u201cno suspicious findings were identified on the kites,\u201d and that \u201cat no stage was there any danger to the public.\u201d<\/strong> But according to Hebrew media reports, the IDF believes that Hamas was responsible for launching the kites, and was doing so to test whether and how Israel would respond.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy directive to the defense establishment and the IDF is to do everything against this lethal weapon \u2014 to strike it, to strike those operating it, to strike the place from which it was launched<\/strong>, to do everything in order to protect our citizens in the Gaza border communities and everywhere else,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n

\u2026.Hours later, a joint statement from Netanyahu and Katz threatened to \u201cintensify strikes\u201d<\/strong> against those responsible for launching kites from Gaza toward Israeli border communities, and evacuate areas of the Strip\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael warns Hamas that if the launches toward Israel do not stop immediately, the IDF will act to intensify strikes against those responsible for the launches and evacuate populations from areas from which kites, drones and balloons are launched,\u201d Netanyahu and Katz said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

Earlier Sunday, Katz said he had instructed the IDF to \u201cact forcefully\u201d against the launching of kites from the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

\u201cI instructed the IDF to act immediately and forcefully against any phenomenon of launches from Gaza<\/strong> toward the communities of the western Negev,\u201d Katz said in a statement\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cA balloon is treated like a kite, and a kite is treated like a drone \u2014 with or without explosives<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cAnyone who organizes, launches, or enables the launches will be dealt with immediately and with the utmost severity.\u201d Times of Israel<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kids. These are kids playing with the only toys they have left (since Israel blew up everything else.) Are they going to take those away too? Have we lost all sense of proportion or reason or decency?<\/p>\n

By the way, Netanyahu\u2019s office delivered a statement on Sunday giving Hamas a three-day deadline<\/strong> to halt the kite launches or there would be more air strikes to come.<\/strong> So, the next round of attacks could be just hours away. Check out this excellent summary by the always insightful David Says Stuff:<\/p>\n

This is a Palestinian boy destroying the kites he made with his own hands because he\u2019s terrified that Israel will bomb him for flying them. His father was already murdered by Israel for just trying to fee his family. This is the version of Israel that AIPAC spends millions to hide from you\u2026 a military that terrorizes a child into destroying his own kites. Because once you see stories like this, the propaganda just stops working. And, of course Israel threatened \u201cpowerful actions\u201d over kites and balloons. How else do you make Palestinian children never feel safe even while playing? So, Israel Katz said, \u201cThey\u2019ll be treated like drones with or without explosives.\u201d So they know these are harmless, but they just don\u2019t care. So, sure, let\u2019s keep calling them \u201cthe world\u2019s most moral army\u201d. And, as a father, I feel this boy\u2019s pain like it\u2019s my own. They killed his father and now they are taking away one of the only things that brought him joy. Israel is not satisfied just taking Palestinian lives. They have to take away their childhood as well.\u201d DavidSaysStuff<\/a><\/p>\n

What a powerfull, heartfelt statement. If only Netanyahu had an ounce of David\u2019s empathy, the genocide would have ended long ago.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s becoming clear that Netanyahu and those who are calling the shots in Israel are suffering from some sort of mental illness. Why else would they cite kids flying kites as an \u201cact of war\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":330582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330586,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330581\/revisions\/330586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}