Police suspect arson in Jerusalem forest fires
Blazes erupt in two locations in Peace Forest
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Police are investigating suspicions that arson was behind two fires that broke out in a forest in south Jerusalem Friday afternoon.
Firefighters called in to battle flames that erupted in one part of the Peace Forest national park, close to the mixed Arab-Jewish Abu Tor neighborhood, had barely finished putting out the first blaze when they were dispatched to a second location in the same forest.
The close proximity of the blazes led investigators to suspect they were intentionally started.
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