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Israelis flee fires as heatwave hits

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Several fires spread across northern and central Israel and the occupied West Bank as temperatures soared on Friday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people, authorities said.

A girl watches as smoke rises from a fire near the northern Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am  JALAA MAREY AFP

There were no immediate reports of casualties but police said in a statement that seven homes were damaged in the northern town of Nof Hagalil and 5,000 residents evacuated.

Several homes were also evacuated near the Jewish settlement of Kfar Oranim in the occupied West Bank, the statement added.

Roads were closed and police urged people to be vigilant, as the army helped firefighters to contain the blazes.

“After the outbreak of several fires across Israel amid a heatwave, our troops are working together with Israeli firefighters & @israelpolice to put them out and evacuate civilian communities in immediate danger,” the army said in a tweet.

The fires came days after the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme said that last month was the warmest September on record globally.

It cited new high temperatures in Israel and neighbouring Jordan.

Dozens of fires broke out across the Jewish state during summer last year as record temperatures fuelled wildfires.

And in 2016, blazes damaged or destroyed around 700 homes in Israel and the occupied West Bank, and sent more than 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of woodland up in smoke.

(AFP/ FRANCE24)

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3 responses to “Israelis flee fires as heatwave hits”

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    AFP/ FRANCE24 are nazi idi*ts or yalibnan??? Judea and Samaria are occupied, by Orabistinians. And also East Bank and also North Africa

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      also Niemals is nazi idi*t

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    Es gibt kein Normalität mehr

    The region with limited water has difficulty with such fires.
    Climate change is affecting everyone, whether it is a conflict region or not.

    The Middle East is an area where there is a great shortage of water – it is often said that the water ran out in the 70s. Another area with water shortages is the Sahel area in Africa, where there is often a drought.

    The war in Syria not only has political causes, but is also a result of the prolonged drought that hit the country for five years before the outbreak of war, according to Nadim Farajallah, a professor at the American University of Beirut and one of the region’s leading climate experts.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/370f8de1a363e3ffbae9919e7b6e0cae71e246f3f8a967bba7788b28c2055f07.jpg
    And according to the climate expert, the ongoing climate changes pose a major threat to most countries in the Middle East.

    – It’s just to see what it has looked like the last five years.

    Examples of similar climate change are the floods that have hit Saudi Arabia and Yemen and the severe storms that have swept over Lebanon.

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