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Source: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/letters/gaza-s-flaming-kites-the-japanese-invented-them-in-world-war-ii-1.6193139

Hamas Did Not Invent Incendiary Balloons

(Ha'aretz) Dr. Ehud Finkelstein - During World War II, the Japanese launched 9,000 incendiary balloons from their territory in the hope that they would be carried to the U.S. by the jet stream air current. At least 342 balloons reached American territory. In May 1945, a balloon bomb killed teacher Elsie Mitchell and five Sunday school students out for a fishing trip near Klamath Falls, Oregon.

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