Three Israeli men were detained for questioning Friday after a burning kite they tried to fly into the Gaza Strip fell on the Israeli side of the border, setting off a small brushfire.

Ran Karmi Buzaglo, the only man whose name was released, later claimed the stunt was an effort to make a video “to amuse and strengthen the morale of local residents who have suffered as a result of the ‘kite terrorism.’”

The fire was quickly extinguished and the three men were taken into police custody for questioning. A video of the incident filmed by one of the three shows Karmi Buzaglo and a second man setting fire to a piece of cloth tied to a kite and trying to fly it into Gaza. It ends with the kite falling inside Israeli, followed by someone shouting “no, no, no.”

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In another video filmed before the incident, Karmi Buzaglo addresses Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Arabic, saying: “Listen, man, don’t toy with us,” before continuing in Hebrew: “We are here on the Gaza border. We will teach them how to do it right. We have prepared gifts for them. Soon they will understand that everything they know how to do, we know how to do better.”

Karmi Buzaglo recently mocked the use of incendiary kites by protesting Palestinians. “The best minds of IMI [Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer] are developing a laser beam that will intercept kites,” he wrote on Twitter. “The development will be operational in 2025 and will cost nearly $1 billion. Meanwhile, the possibility is being considered of putting a bullet in the head of every terrorist who flies a kite bomb.”

Karmi Buzaglo, 54, led a public campaign in support of Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier convicted of shooting a dead a wounded assailant in Hebron in 2016. He added the name Buzaglo to his own three years ago to protest derogatory remarks by Jewish religious figures about Mizrahi Jews.</s>Three right-wing activists were arrested in Israel on Friday after attempting to send an incendiary kite into the Gaza Strip. The kite was believed to have fallen inside Israeli territory, where it started a small conflagration.

One of the suspects, Ran Karmi Buzaglo, claimed that he had been attempting to make a "humorous video."

The fire was quickly extinguished and the three men were taken into police custody for questioning. A video of the incident shows Buzaglo setting fire to a piece of cloth tied to a kite and trying to fly it into Gaza. The video ends with the kite falling within Israeli territory, while someone is heard shouting "no, no, no."

In a video taken before the fire, Karmi Buzaglo addresses Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, saying in Arabic: "Listen, man, don't play with us." He continues in Hebrew: "We are here on the Gaza border. We will teach them how to do it right. We have prepared gifts for them. Soon they will understand that everything they know how to do, we know how to do better."

Karmi Buzaglo recently mocked the use of incendiary kites by protesting Palestinians. "The best minds of IMI [Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer] are developing a laser beam that will intercept kites," he wrote on Twitter. "The development will be operational in 2025 and will cost nearly a billion dollars. Meanwhile, the possibility is being considered of putting a bullet in the head of every terrorist who flies a kite bomb."

Karmi Buzaglo, 54, led a public campaign in support of Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier convicted of shooting a dead a wounded assailant in Hebron in 2016. He added the name Buzaglo three years ago in protest of religious figures' statements against Mizrahi Jews.</s>Three Israeli right-wing activists sought to fight fire with fire, retaliating to incendiary kite attacks from Gaza with their own creation — which crashed short of the border and sparked a blaze near a kibbutz, according to reports.

“There are extremists and there are idiots. The worst is a mix of the two,” tweeted Amir Peretz, a Zionist Union member of the Israeli Knesset.

The three men were captured by Israeli soldiers and held for questioning.

One of them, Ran Karmi Buzaglo, claimed that he and his cohorts had merely been trying to make a “humorous video,” the Israeli Haaretz reported.

The video shows Buzaglo igniting a piece of cloth tied to a kite and trying to set it aloft toward Gaza – but it lands inside Israel as someone is heard shouting, “No, no, no!”

Before launching the Molotov cocktail-like weapon, Buzaglo, 54, delivered a warning to Hamas honcho Ismail Haniyeh.

“Listen, man, don’t play with us,” he said in Arabic before continuing in Hebrew: “We are here on the Gaza border. We will teach them how to do it right. We have prepared gifts for them. Soon they will understand that everything they know how to do, we know how to do better.”

Buzaglo recently mocked Palestinians for using the exact same tactic.

“The best minds of IMI [Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer] are developing a laser beam that will intercept kites,” he wrote on Twitter.

“The development will be operational in 2025 and will cost nearly a billion dollars. Meanwhile, the possibility is being considered of putting a bullet in the head of every terrorist who flies a kite bomb.”

A kite carrying flammable material was recently sent from Gaza and sparked a fire near Kibbutz Am close to the border, the Times of Israel reported.

An Israeli soldier shot and wounded the Palestinian as he launched the kite.

In the past several weeks, Gazans have flown kites outfitted with containers of burning fuel – frequently including charcoal and bags of sugar to ensure a long burn – as well as incendiary helium balloons.

Haim Jelin, another Israeli lawmaker, said that “flying an incendiary kite into Israel is equal to launching a Qassam rocket into it.

“Those who do not understand that, don’t understand the implications,” he added. “When the fire is 50 meters away from a community and could easily spread, we cannot ignore under any circumstances the kite terror and allow it to be our routine.”
Three Israelis are arrested after filming themselves attempting to fly a kite carrying an incendiary device into the Gaza Strip, in reference to the same tactic used by protestors in Gaza. The kite crashes on Israeli territory where it starts a small fire.