Flaming Condoms Are the Newest Threat to Southern Israel
- Inflated rubbers with firebombs attached torch fields, woods
- Israel struggling to deal with improvised incendiary devices
Masked protesters prepare to attach incendiary to inflated condoms filled with helium gas to be flown towards Israel at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij.
Photographer: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images
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Condoms have moved out of the bedroom and into the air in the Gaza Strip, where they’ve become the newest weapon against Israel.
Sometimes tied together for added buoyancy, the inflated prophylactics are attached to gas-soaked rags, other burning items or explosive devices, then flown over the border like balloons into southern Israel, where they set fire to farmlands and nature reserves.