ha-Navi he-Hadash: Arabiska mordbränder.

söndag 2 augusti 2015

Arabiska mordbränder.

Mordbrand av araber? Än inte bevisat än medan media skriker om ett fall av mordbrand där ingen vet vem förövaren var, men det kan tänkas ha varit en jude. Vi får se vad våra massmedia säger om de senaste mordbränderna i Israel. Denna heta torra säsong har många skogsbränder och många har härletts till arabiska tändstickor där en enda tändsticka kan förstöra så mycket.

Officials: Major Forest Fire Could Reach Hadassah Hospital

At least 40 firefighting crews were battling what has turned into a major blaze outside Jerusalem. Investigators have not ruled out arson.

By Yaakov Levi
First Publish: 8/2/2015, 4:55 PM

Jerusalem Hills fire

Police Spokesperson

At least 40 firefighting crews were battling what has turned into a major blaze outside Jerusalem. The blaze, which is currently raging out of control, began near the community of Even Sapir in the Jerusalem Hills, but with the extremely hot and dry weather in Israel, the fire has been spreading very quickly.
Currently, firefighters are concentrating their efforts on the area next to Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital, which is very close to where a large part of the fire is burning. Officials have cleared the parking lot outside the hospital, in order ro ensure that there are less inflammable materials to feed the fire.
A separate major fire has broken out north of Jerusalem, and soldiers at the Ofer base have been evacuated, as the fire has been moving in that direction as well. Firefighters are hoping to prevent the spread of the fire to nearby towns, such as Givat Ze'ev.

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At least three firefighters have been injured so far, victims of smoke inhalation. One home in Even Sapir burned down, and the rest of the town has been evacuated. Rescue officials are preparing to evacuate other areas as well. Among the structures that have gone up in flames are old warehouses with asbestos roofs. A combination of the asbestos fumes and the smoke from the fire has caused a precipitous drop in the air quality in and around Jerusalem, and officials are urging elderly and ill individuals to take cover.
Negligence or terrorism?
Investigators said they are determined to discover the cause of the blaze, with one official telling Arutz Sheva that “all possibilities will be taken into consideration.”
A similar set of fires tore through the hills south of Jerusalem last week, particularly near the Beit Shemesh area.
On Sunday, Shlomi Saadoun, a fireman from the Beit Shemesh Fire Brigade, noted that the investigation so far indicates that the fire started because of the negligence of one of the farmers in the region. He urged residents to be careful with extinguishing campfires and cigarettes, noting that weather conditions - extreme, dry heat - have exacerbated an already-raging brushfire problem.
Fires are common in Israel during the summer, as the dry and arid desert heat can easily fan the flames of dying campfires.
However, terrorists have also used the weather as an excuse to commit arson across multiple points in Israel, and a wave of large forest fires last year was attributed, at least in part, to deliberate attempts to overwhelm firefighting forces and destroy property.
The 2010 Carmel fire near Haifa, considered one of Israel's worst and which killed 44 people, was suspected by police to have been started by two Arab youths from the Druze village of Usafia. Nevertheless, the criminal case against them was closed in 2011 over "insufficient evidence."

In a major blaze in the Gush Etzion Forest in June, investigators determoned that Arab arsonists had set a fire as part of an ongoing “fire intifada.”
In response to the repeated arson there, Gush Etzion regional council chair Davidi Perl said, "the ongoing situation cannot continue. Arson is a terror attack to all intents and purposes."
"There's no need to wait until the terrorists succeed in burning a community in order to understand that this is an attack," emphasized Perl. "The arson in the forest adjacent to communities is a life-threatening danger, and there needs to be an end to the attacks this very day."