Bet Shemesh, Israel – The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned Wednesday that the spread of forest fires quickly near Jerusalem could reach the city, since he declared that the situation was a “national emergency.”
The thick smoke surpassed the roads near Jerusalem when firefighters rushed to control the forest fires that have hurt several people and led the military to deploy troops and other resources to help.
David Adom’s rescue agency in Israel reported that hundreds of civilians were at risk of sausage brush fires in years.
MDA said he had a supplier treatment to around 23 people, 13 or that they were tasks for the hospital, most suffered from smoke inhalation and burns. Among them were two pregnant women and two babies under one year, he added.
He said the alert level had raised the leg at the highest level.
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Netanyahu warned that “the western wind can push fire cities in the cities of (Jerusalem), and even the city itself.”
“We need to bring as many fire trucks as possible and create lower fire far beyond the current lines of fire … now we are in a national emergency, not just a place,” he added in a video statement. “The priority at this time is to defend Jerusalem.”
Police closed the Aviv Aviv road from Jerusalem main and evacuated residents along the route when brush fires exploded again in an area devastated by fires a week ago. The communities that house thousands of people have been clear.
“A lot of police arrested many firefighters, but in reality it did not help. The fire already had tasks completely over the whole area here,” said Yosef Aaron to the AFP, speaking to the side of a road with visible flames in the distance.
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Fire Chief Eyal Caspi warned of a televised press conference that “our plane cannot do anything right due to climatic conditions … Our goal is to save lives.”
“We are facing Larst’s fire in Israel in a decade.”
Police said in X that they had been deployed in force around the AVIV highway of Jerusalem and the hills of Jerusalem, asking the public to “avoid traveling to the area.”
An AFP journalist on the scene on Wednesday on Wednesday said the fire was sweeping through forested areas near the main road between Latrun and Bet Shemesh, and that helicopters were working to exalt the flames.
The soldiers arrived at the scene in the middle after, with many drivers abandoning their vehicles to flee from the fire.
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In a statement, the Israel defense forces said that since Wednesday, the troops with the Search and Rescue brigade and a regional unit of Jerusalem, “along with approximately 50 fire trucks from the Homefront direction,” to work, “to work,” to work “, to work”, to work. The hills of Jerusalem.
“During the night, engineering vehicles began to operate through the country to form lines of fire to prevent the fire from extending to other areas,” said the FDI.
The communities located about 19 miles to the west or Jerusalem were evacuated, Israeli media reported, which transmitted images of fire extinguishing equipment fighting fierce flames.
The National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, hinted that the fire caused the fire. Police said they had arrested a resident of Jerusalem that was caught “trying to set fire to a field in the southern part of the city.”
There was no official statement to link the two.
Ben Gvir said the police would be a trial to anyone “involved in the terror of the fire”, while monitoring the disturbances.
MDA said the ambulance teams had placed themselves near the communities near fires and were ready to provide medical treatment and help residents.
High temperatures and strong winds have allowed fires in wooded areas to spread rapidly, which caused evacuations of at least five communities, police said in a statement.
Ben Gvir, who supervises the Israel Fire Department, visited the affected area, which is prone to forest fires at this time of year.
In a video statement, he said that a job was carried out to provide more assistance to the affected areas and evacuate the civilians stranded.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has contacted nearby countries such as Greece, Chipre, Croatia, Italy and Bulgaria to obtain help.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said solidarity with Israel and offered “material support” in an X publication.
Netanyahu’s office said three planes would soon arrive from Italy and Croatia to help fight fires.
With the stretched staff, Ben Gvir said he had ordered the organizers to cancel any event linked to the celebrations of the Independence Day on Thursday to have required the presence of firefighters.
“The decision aims to reallocate strength to deal with fire … and prepare for worsened climatic conditions according to forecasts,” said a statement.
