Thousands of people in Israel have fled wildfires that tore across central and northern regions and that have now spread to the West Bank village of Jebiya.
In Haifa city, people went back to check their burned houses and Mayor of Haifa Yona Yahav said that the damage was only to property.
Wildfires forced tens of thousands of residents to flee the city of Haifa, as leaders blamed arsonists for some of the blazes and branded them terrorists.
The fires have been burning in multiple locations for the past three days but intensified yesterday, fuelled by unseasonably dry weather and strong easterly winds.
With fires burning in the forests west of Jerusalem, around Haifa, on central and northern hilltops and in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the government sought assistance from neighbouring countries to tackle them.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that any fire caused by arson in a series of blazes that have spread across central and northern Israel would be considered as "terrorism".
"Every fire that was caused by arson, or incitement to arson, is terrorism by all accounts. And we will treat it as such," Mr Netanyahu told reporters gathered in Haifa.
"Whoever tries to burn parts of Israel will be punished for it severely."
Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Turkey and Russia offered help, with several aircraft already joining efforts to quell the fires, dropping fire-retardant material to try to douse the heaviest blazes and stem their spread.
Mr Netanyahu said he had asked for a "Super Tanker" fire fighting aircraft to be sent from the United States.
The Palestinian Authority had offered assistance as well, he said.
