Environment ministry says 145,000 tons of dry vegetation went up in flames between October 7 and July 30, much of it caused by rocket fire from Lebanon and Gaza
Around 146 square kilometers (56 square miles) of vegetation in northern Israel and eight square kilometers (three square miles) along the Gaza border have been incinerated during the war that broke out following the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, with most of the blazes sparked by terror groups’ rocket fire, the Environmental Protection Ministry said Thursday.
The former represents a fivefold increase in the average surface area that has burned annually over the past decade in the Galilee and the Golan Heights in northern Israel.
The latter is twice the annual average over the past eight years. In years gone by, multiple blazes were sparked along the Gaza border by incendiary balloons sent from the Gaza Strip.
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