GAZA, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli army drones carried out on Saturday afternoon three successive airstrikes on the Palestinians who released arson balloons from eastern Gaza Strip into Israel, injuring two people, medics in the Health Ministry said.
Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the Health Ministry in Gaza, told reporters that two Palestinian young men were injured, including one in critical condition, by the shrapnel of a missile fired by an Israeli drone in eastern Gaza city close to the border with Israel.
On Saturday, Palestinian activists flew and released dozens of flaming balloons from eastern Gaza Strip into Israel, causing large fires to agricultural fields in southern Israel. An Israeli army spokesman confirmed the airstrikes on eastern Gaza.
The Israeli airstrikes came one day after three Palestinians were killed, including a 21-year-old volunteer paramedic who was shot dead east of Rafah town in southern Gaza Strip close to the border with Israel.
Al-Qedra said that more than 300 were injured on Friday in protests, rallies and clashes between hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers.
On Thursday, Egypt and the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov brokered a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas-led militant groups in Gaza, ending another round of armed confrontations between the two sides.
