ESHTAOL (Israel), May 1 (EFE) .- Israel’s firefighters claim to have the macro-government on the outskirts of Jerusalem “partially under control” and hope to control fires around 20.00 local time (17.00 GMT), the head of the Firefighters Medical Department, Professor Alon Ben Nun, told Efe.
“We are in a partially stable situation and we hope to maintain it that way, but time is changing. The winds, strong, come from the west side of Israel, between 50 and 60 kilometers per hour. We have a few hours in which, until 20.00, we have to endure and, if we can endure, we will reach the goal of stopping the fire,” Ben Nun explained in the fire center.
The emergency teams, coordinated from a command center in an industrial estate next to Eshtaol (about 20 kilometers from Jerusalem), work from Wednesday morning to put out a wave of forest fires that has already burned more than 2,000 hectares on the outskirts of the holy city.
Jerusalem, May 1 (EFE) .- The macroitnd on the outskirts of Jerusalem that began on Wednesday morning has already burned some 2,000 hectares of land, of which 1,300 were forests, as confirmed to Efe an spokesman for the Jewish national Fund, the organization created by the Zionist movement in the early twentieth century to acquire land in Palestinian territories and that today is part of the Israeli land.
Half of the calcined forest area belongs to the Canada Park, lamented the organization, which has 13 % of the national territory, in a statement this Thursday. It is a national park that, according to the local press, has burned almost entirely.
“Seeing Canada Park, one of the most beloved, restored and visited by Israel on fire is heartbreaking,” said the manager of the Jewish National Fund for the central region of Israel, Anat Gold, announcing that they intend to restore the forest as soon as possible.
Israel’s Firefighters seek to control the fire on the outskirts of Jerusalem “before noon” this Thursday, when they foresee that the winds intensify, which could re -envive the fire, they said in a statement in their diffusion channels.
At the moment, 126 fire and rescue teams are operating in the fire zone, with the assistance of extinction aircraft in the six main sectors to which the fire affects: the highway of Burma, Eshtaol, the Hakdoshim forest (or the forest of the saints), the Canada Park, Shaar Hagari and the area of Shoresh (as well as the entries to the entries to the locations of the Inv.
Most of these places are located in the Sefelá region, an area about 30 kilometers to the west Jerusalem, although the areas closest to the holy city to which the fire has expanded (like Shoresh), are about 14 kilometers.
The fires that hit the mountains near Jerusalem since Wednesday have caused thousands of evacuated and 36 injured, and continue active and out of control this Thursday.
Jerusalem, May 1 (EFE) .- Israeli police arrested a man from Jerusalem is occupied by publishing content on the Internet, calling to cause fire, this security body reported in a statement.
The detainee published on Wednesday videos of the fires that whipped areas of mountain to the west of Jerusalem accompanied by messages in which, referring to God, he asked that a “burning hell” fall because “they have corrupted and destroyed the Muslim lands,” according to the police.
The man was arrested at his home and interrogated at the police station, and will be brought to court for an hearing, where the police report that he will request an extension of his arrest.
The police arrested another man from Jerusalem on Wednesday while setting fire to a field open in the south of the city, which was brought to court, under the request of the Police to extend their arrest until Sunday.
The place where the man was surprised with a lighter is tens of kilometers from where the fires were produced, whose origin is still unknown and that have burned so far 2,000 hectares and caused the evacuation of thousands of people.
