At a press conference earlier Saturday, the Hof police sub-district head Deputy Commander Roni Attias said that the fire was caused by the negligence of a family in the Carmel area. He said police are currently busy investigating, but "know what the incident was."
Police said they were close to identifying the family. Channel 10 reported that it was suspected that the fire started from a nargilla water-pipe.
Haaretz, of all the liberal, humanist media outlets, identifies them:
Police forces arrested Saturday two brothers from the Druze village of Isfiya who are suspected of being responsible for the act of negligence which started the massive fire that was still raging in the Carmel in northern Israel.
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Whatever the causes of the large Carmel Forest fire near Haifa, it
ReplyDeleteis now clear that all of the numerous secondary fires in other
locations near Haifa that were set today are Arab terrorist attacks
and were deliberately set.
There were multiple fires set in the industrial zone near Kiryat
Bialik, north of Haifa today, not far from Acre. There were also
fires deliberately set near Tiv’on, Nesher and in other places. This is a full-fledged ecological terrorist assault against Israeli Jews being conducted by Israeli Arab terrorists. The leftist media
repeat without question the lies about Jewish “settlers” supposedly
setting fires to Arab orchards in the West Bank, even after Arabs
themselves and leftists have been photographed in the act of setting
those fires as provocations to blame “settlers.” These are the same media playing coy about the causes of all these smaller secondary fires around Haifa today.