Egypt sends military helicopters to battle wildfires
Not far from where Cairo helped put out fires stands a red granite obelisk memorial to Egyptian soldiers who fell while invading Israel in 1948
A firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire burning scrubland in an area where Palestinians have been causing blazes by flying kites and balloons loaded with flammable materials, on the Israeli side of the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, near kibbutz Nir Am, June 5, 2018(photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)ByANNA AHRONHEIM
