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JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of homes were burnt and four people were injured overnight as a wildfire broke out in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, amidst a wave of fires in Israel.
The Palestinian fire department sent three firefighting vehicles from Ramallah to help the Israeli forces to put out the fire, as the entire 1,000-people community of the settlement of Halamish was evacuated.
A statement by the Israeli police said that the blaze completely consumed at least 15 houses and seriously damaged 25 more.
In the early morning hours, the forces gained control over the fire, and the residents were allowed to return home.
The MDA medical emergency services reported that three people were seriously injured due to smoke inhalation in the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem.
Blazes continue to rage elsewhere in Israel Saturday morning, for the fifth day of wildfires in a region spanning from the Jerusalem Mountains in the south to Nahariya, Israel's northernmost city.
Although no fatalities were reported, hundreds of people needed hospitals care after they inhaled smoke, and on Thursday about 75,000 people were evacuated from Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, after fires broke out in multiple sites.
The Boeing-747 Supertanker, the world's largest firefighting aircraft, landed in Israel Friday to help control the fire. The plane can carry 75 tons of water or fire retardant.
Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Italy, Britain, Russia, and Croatia responded to Israel's call for international help and sent more than a dozen of aircrafts to fight the raging blaze.
The fires broke out amidst unusually dry and windy weather conditions also in the West Bank cities of Jenin, Nablus, and Ramallah, as well as in Lebanon and Egypt.
