The illegal Zionist entity of Israel has accepted help from the Palestinian authorities to fight the wildfires that have spread to large areas of the occupied country.
The crisis has led to tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as flames swept across the country’s third largest city of Haifa.
Four Palestinian firefighting teams will join the effort to combat the fires.
A senior Israeli official told the Haaretz newspaper that Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories will oversee the cooperation between the Palestinian and the Israeli fire crews.
Russia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Croatia and Cyprus are all also helping fight the blaze, while America has agreed to send a Boeing 747 “Supertanker” firefighting plane.
The Zionist regime have blamed the wildfires on arson attacks by Palestinians, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said such an attack would be treated as terrorism.
Israeli police said on Friday they had arrested 12 people on suspicion of arson.
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Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a dozen people had been detained either while attempting to set fires or fleeing the area, but he provided no further details.
Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said they were “minorities”, an allusion to either Arab Israeli citizens or Palestinians.
“The highest likelihood is that the motive is nationalistic,” Mr Erdan told Army Radio.
The flames, which have raged since Tuesday, have been fanned by strong winds during a hot and dry period.
At least 130 people have been injured as the fires have spread, mostly from smoke inhalation.
None were thought to be in a life-threatening condition.
