Jerusalem, May 1 (EFE) .- Israeli Foreign minister Gideon Saar, thanked on Thursday the “solidarity and willingness to offer support” of all those countries that have sent help to Israel to deal with forest fires that hit the forests near Jerusalem from Wednesday morning.
In an event with the diplomatic corps in the presidential residence on the occasion of Israel’s Independence Day, Saar said he was “deeply grateful to the countries that have immediately taken a step forward to help cope with this great fire.”
He also thanked many of the ambassadors present in the meeting to have collaborated to take the help against Fire to Israel.
“Yesterday maintained a series of telephone conversations with the foreign ministers of many countries,” said Israeli’s headline, who also said that other countries contacted their ministry on their own initiative to offer help.
Saar said that his country is used to attending others at a time of necessity, whether natural catastrophes or other disasters, without taking into account “political or diplomatic considerations.”
“These are our values, on which Israel founded,” he concluded.
The minister yesterday asked for air assistance from Argentina, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus, Azerbaijan and Macedonia del Norte to face the Macroincendio in the vicinity of Jerusalem, which has calcined more than 2,000 hectares and forced to evacuate 8,000 thousand people.
The Israeli Fire Service reported Thursday that a Cypriot helicopter is already on Israeli soil and in the next few hours it will be incorporated into extinction work. EFE
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