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The last time incendiary balloons caused a fire in the Gaza border region was in September 2021.

A 2,000-year-old burial site has been uncovered near Fröndenberg-Frömern, Germany, containing significant quantities of fire debris and large ceramic fragments.

The intensification of heat waves would threaten Israel’s agriculture, economy, and public health, potentially resulting in severe illnesses and loss of life. 

For Jewish communities around the world, tikkun olam (repairing the world) is an important value. For South African Jewry it is a way of life.

A fire southeast of Gaza City has been burning in an area of roughly 50,000 square meters of a landfill site.

Johannesburg city authorities leased it to a charity providing shelter for women in 2016, but it had "ended up serving a different purpose," Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda told reporters.

Firefighters and emergency vehicles were at the scene, while bodies lay covered in emergency blankets on a street near the site of the early morning blaze.

The meteor in question reportedly shone in a bright streak of light as it soared through the sky at around 3:33 a.m. It was likely part of the Perseids meteor shower.

After the first explosion, the fire spread to two fuel tanks and a nearby house, leading authorities to evacuate everyone within a radius of 700 meters.

The evacuation order was subsequently lifted after firefighters stopped the forward movement of the fire.