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“#Fire near Jerusalem forces village evacuations<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n The fire was burning fiercely Sunday evening near the Israeli village of Moshav Shoresh.
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Residents of several villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem were evacuated on Sunday because of a large forest fire nearby, Israeli police said.<\/p>\n

Firemen supported by firefighting aircraft were working to extinguish the blaze as the smoke blotted out the sky across much of the city.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said he had held a special meeting with security officials.<\/p>\n

The fire threatened the villages of Beit Meir, Shoeva, Kissalon, Guvat Yearim and Ramat Raziel west of Jerusalem, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The villages lie close to the main highway linking the city with Israel’s commercial capital Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

Residents were evacuated and several roads were blocked, the police added.<\/p>\n

“This is one of the biggest fires in the Jerusalem area in years,” Nissim Touitou, the region’s fire chief, told a televised news<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n

Earlier, a spokesman for the Jerusalem fire service said strong winds were fanning the flames and called on firefighters from several regions to assist.<\/p>\n

A fire that broke out in the same area over a week ago had been quickly brought under control.<\/p>\n

The cause of Sunday’s fire was not yet known.<\/p>\n

Yitzhak Ravitz, the mayor of Kyriat Yearim near the affected villages, told public radio his “town’s doors are open … to all families needing protection”.<\/p>\n

Several other Mediterranean countries have seen forest fires amid soaring temperatures in recent weeks, including Greece, Turkey and Algeria.<\/p>\n