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JN-927
Jerusalem News 927. The Fire in israel.
7 December, 2010, 30 Kislev, 5771
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1. The Fire in Israel. What Happened? News Excerpts.
(a) Israel Fire Kills Dozens of Residents by Dan Balilty
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/
israel-fire-kills-dozens-_n_791163.html
Excerpts.
MEGADIM, Israel ' Dozens of Israeli guards trying to rescue prisoners threatened by the worst forest fire in the country's history died Thursday when their bus became trapped in the same inferno.
As the guards raced toward the prison holding mostly Palestinians, a lone tree fell across the road, blocking their path. With no way out, many of them were burned alive inside the vehicle. Others perished while trying to flee the flames fed by brush left tinder-dry by lack of rain.
When the smoke cleared, at least 36 were dead.
"This is a disaster of unprecedented proportions," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The flames forced 12,000 people from their homes, leveled a village and threatened to cause irreparable harm to one of Israel's few forested areas.
(b) Israel fire quelled, senior policewoman dies of burns (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/
idUSTRE6B31UR20101206
Excerpts.
(Reuters) - Israel's most senior policewoman died Monday of severe injuries suffered in a huge forest fire, raising the death toll in the blaze to 42.
Police said the fires that consumed more than 12,000 acres of woodlands, millions of trees and more than 100 homes, were extinguished Monday, five days after taking hold of the Carmel ridge outside the port city of Haifa.
Efforts to beat down the inferno were helped by overnight rains, and emergency equipment rushed to Israel from across Europe, the United States, Asia, Egypt and Jordan.
Ahuva Tomer, 53, the first woman commander named to the Haifa police force, sustained severe burns in the blaze after being trapped inside her vehicle. She died of the injuries and was buried with full police honors Monday.
She had become stuck near a bus filled with prison guard cadets headed to evacuate a jail, most of whom also perished in the fire.
Israeli media assessed the cost of the fire's damage at around 2 billion shekels ($550 million).
(c) Rabbi: Israel's fire 'God's wrath'.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153986.html
Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said Saturday that the disaster was a result of "desecration of Shabbat."
He also called on Israelis to "study Torah, engage in good deeds, repent, observe Shabbat, and know the entire Halacha, and thanks to this, God will apply a full recovery."
2. How did the fire start? Were Arabs Responsible?
(a) The Official Version So Far.
A 14-year old Arab boy from a Ossafiya [also spelt Usifiya] , a mainly Druze village, smoking a hookah in the forest is officially believed to have accidentally started the fire.
The father of the boy claims his son was actually miles away from where the fire started.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/14-year-
old-from-carmel-region-admits-to-
accidentally-starting-massive
-wildfire-1.329203
Police Commissioner David Cohen said on Saturday that the fire was caused by negligence, and not arson, during a situation assessment at the Israel Police northern headquarters.
The Carmel fire claimed 41 lives and destroyed nearly 50,000 dunams of land in the Carmel region.
(b) Fire Had Several Starting Points
Earlier reports claimed that it began in several areas at once.
After the fire started, had already claimed victims, and in the midst of international attempts to deal with it there were Arabs who tried to light fires elsewhere.
A [Hebrew-language] report from the roof of Haifa University whence the fire and its spreading were clearly visible says that the fire began in 6 places at once and that after it began another four starting points opened up.
http://www.onlyisrael.net/'p=489
(c). Fire or a Massacre? Israeli Media Downplays Arson Suspicion
December 2, 2010
by Gil Ronen
(Israelnationalnews.com)
Extracts:
Israel's major news media, controlled by the Left, are on the whole treating the fire as a "disaster," spending most of their broadcast time discussing the insufficient preparation for a disaster of this magnitude and downplaying the fact that Arab arson is likely behind the blaze.
The fire spread from three locations simultaneously ' making arson a likely possibility.
Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud), a [Druze] resident of Usfiya, said on Channel 10 Thursday evening that he has received information that the fire is a terror act. He said that if the perpetrators are caught they should be executed "like [the Nazi criminal Adolf] Eichmann" who is the only person put to death by Israel to date.
Arab citizens of Israel use arson as a simple means of inflicting terror and destruction upon the Jewish state. Large scale fires recently consumed 5,000 acres in the Golan Heights.
The numerous large fires that broke out or were set this year depleted Israel's reserves of fire-fighting chemicals....
Radio Haifa reported that Arabs have been dancing in the streets of Furadis, just south of Haifa, in celebration of the deadly fire.
3. Press Low-Key on Wave of Arson by Israel's Arabs
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
News/News.aspx/140993
by Gil Ronen
Extracts:
Police and volunteers are manning checkpoints, lookouts and ambushes throughout Israel in an effort to combat a wave of terrorist arson by Arab citizens of Israel. While occasionally reporting some of the arson incidents, most news sources are playing them down considerably, while others cover them up completely.
The IDF has released video footage shot from an IAF aircraft, which shows a vehicle escaping from the scene of an arson attack on the Carmel Mountain. The conversation on the radio, in Hebrew, is between pilots and police. The pilots report that they have received word from a firefighting aircraft that spotted the vehicle leaving the scene of an act of arson, near a spot called the Muhraka. The aircraft follows the vehicle ' a Renault Kangoo ' until it is stopped by police cars.
Despite this video, news of the wave of arson is seeping into the public consciousness mostly through smaller news sources and by word of mouth.
Channel 2's website also carries a report that Border Police arrested two Arabs, one an Israeli citizen and the other from the Palestinian Authority, who tried to start a fire near Jerusalem on Saturday night. The two were caught in a ravine near the 'tunnels checkpoint' at the entrance to the neighborhood of Gilo.
Citizens who passed through the checkpoint noticed the suspects and reported their activity to security forces. A Border Police team identified the two trying to set a fire, called on them to stop and fired four shots in the air. The suspects tried to escape in a vehicle but were arrested after a short chase.
A short time later, a 34-year-old Arab man was arrested near Dodge Junction close to Nazareth. He was taken to interrogation.
The volunteer 'New HaShomer' land security group also placed ambushes in key locations. On Friday it reported several arrests, via text messages that it sent to its volunteer guards.
The News1 website reported that Radio Haifa interviewed several people who witnessed car horn-honking and other acts of public celebration in the Arab village of Furadis, south of Haifa, after news of the tragedy became known Thursday.
According to the report, Arab citizens uploaded to a Facebook account gruesome photographs of charred bodies of victims. Other Arabs expressed their feelings by clicking 'like.' The police are said to be investigating the matter and the Facebook page is said to have been closed.
However, the pictures have already begun making the rounds worldwide. A group called 'Mujahedeen of Palestine,' identified with Al-Qaeda, put the pictures of the bodies on a YouTube video. The video includes text that says 'Muhammad's lions' came out at night to set alight the land of the 'occupiers.'
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