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HAIFA, Israel – While monstrous wildfires wrecked havoc in parts of central and northern Israel, people from the Arab region flooded social media pages with inflammatory messages, celebrating the disaster.
The fires that have been raging endlessly for three days now have been spurred further by dry conditions and high winds. The flames have spread across the central and northern regions of the country and in parts of the West Bank – forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee Israel’s third largest city, Haifa.
So far, about 80,000 residents have been evacuated, even as police forces and firefighters continue to battle the devastating blaze in Haifa. Authorities fear that dry weather conditions could further escalate fires in the city.
Meanwhile, a fiery celebration was witnessed on Arab social media networks where over the last 24 hours, hashtags like ‘Israel is burning’, ‘the Zionist entity is burning’ and ‘Tel_Aviv_IsBurning’ became top trends.
While a Dubai Security Chief tweeted, “Israel banned the muezzin and caught on fire”, a Kuwaiti imam said “Best of luck to the fires :)”
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