New fires broke out on Saturday afternoon, in Banias, the countryside of Tartous, al-Mezeir'a in Latakia countryside, and Qahtan Castle in Jablah, in Syria's coast. #Syria fires https://t.co/QXFymg3oAu
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Fire broke out in Wadi al-Melouk, #Jablah countryside, 3 members of government forces suffocated during firefighting in #Qardaha, #Lattakia countryside. pic.twitter.com/nH03vtxpdq
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Firefighting and Civil Defense put out fires in Bsout village, #Latakia, where it was evacuated today. pic.twitter.com/7UXkXw6A61
Forests and land fires in Qurb Ali and Wadi al-Jawamis villages, western countryside of Homshttps://t.co/SYWkQuoCzu pic.twitter.com/P5VLWbLyGF
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Lebanon fires cause mine detonations along the Israeli border
[IsraelTimes] No casualties reported; regional heatwave leads to blazes throughout Middle East, including in Syria, where two people are killed.
Wildfires around the Middle East triggered by a heatwave hitting the region killed two people in Syria, forced thousands of people to leave their homes and detonated landmines along the Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...-Israel border, state media and officials said Saturday.
Fires were reported by Lebanon’s state news agency in several villages along the border, with some of them triggering explosions of land mines placed along the heavily guarded front.
There were no reports of injuries.
The areas hit by the heatwave are Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Paleostinian territories. The fires come amid an intense heatwave that is unusual for this time of the year.
In Lebanon, firefighters backed by army helicopters fought fires in the country’s north, center and south. A big fire in the southern village of Bater burnt hundreds of pine trees and was getting close to homes when it was put under control.
Wildfires spread across different areas of Israel and the West Bank Friday and into Saturday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
One of the hardest-hit countries was war-torn Syria where fires have killed two people and left dozens suffering from breathing problems over the past two days. The wildfires also burnt wide areas of forests, mostly in the central province of Homs and the coastal province of Latakia.
With firefighters overwhelmed, some residents helped them using primitive methods such as carrying water in buckets and pouring them on the fire.
Director of the Forestry Department in Latakia Agricultural Department, Bassem Douba, was quoted as saying by state news agency SANA that the number of fires reached 85 in different sites.
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