Israel Police reported that a lovely cluster of colorful balloons landed in a community in the Merhavim region at around 8:30 pm, together with an improvised explosive device carefully tied to the festive “bouquet.”
The police arrived together with a professional sapper who proceeded to examine and then defuse the bomb that was attached to the balloons.
Earlier in the day, a homemade bomb attached to a cluster of balloons landed at Zikim Beach in southern Israel, across the border from northern Gaza.
The bomb squad was called to the scene with Israel Police officers and a sapper carefully defused the device.