 I'm in Jerusalem today just running a few errands in Talpio. This is Hamus Akim. That's not why I'm making this video. This is the color of the sky from the forest fire. Pretty incredible here. You can just see this huge billowing cloud in front of me and this is looking roughly let's say well that south so this is probably west but totally unnatural color. You can see the the kind of you of the burning woods inside of it and just to compare with the rest of the sky this is what a natural sky looks like. You can see that big plume of smoke there billowing up into the sky and collecting and blowing. That's the sun. It's kind of just like this reddish rue obscured by that smoke and just if I move the camera around here you can see compared to the rest of the sky this is what a normal natural sky looks like in august in Jerusalem blue sky as is the case most days here and just going back that is the result of the fires and that's the kind of sun this red haze very sad to see this here and this is the smoke billowing from those fires so truly apocalyptic scenes and good to have these KN95s for more than just the pandemic. These are the in Tapeo south Jerusalem this is one of the popular malls and you can just see again another picture of that crazy crazy red sky this is actually looking sort of south south east I would say that's probably because it's spreading and you can see there's just kind of pockets of this really really deep smoke over the city here and you can see where it's kind of clustering and localized and pretty intense scenes one of the worst fires in recent years here probably a little hard to hear me I'm wearing a KN95 cause still officially undetermined but I believe but I believe that ecoterrorism is going to be the the cause just way too many of these happening in a way too short a period of time and that's what the emergency services believe as well. This site is just so crazy I am close to Hadarmol known in Hebrew as Kenyon Hadar in Tapeo in south Jerusalem area best known for its kind of industrial things and you can just see there in front of me that red sky the sun is just it's crazy and that red you in the sky is a result of the forest fires burning around Jerusalem and the Jerusalem hills I'm facing westward here so that's where you're looking out to this is south southward towards Bethlehem and if I just rotate look at the look at the difference that's crazy that is a regular sky and looking let me just get my directions here that's looking northward now towards Jerusalem city center and this is the billowing smoke from the fire it's quite thick and it's just visible wherever you go today in south Jerusalem you can just see just trying to make sure the camera gets in focus really really thick smoke and this distinctive smell that unfortunately for those living in Jerusalem it's become sort of a familiar smell it's probably the third time in the last few months that this something like this has happened and it's become a now familiar smell I was working from home yesterday and I went into the kitchen and smelled burning wood and I thought either my house is going up in smoke which didn't make sense because we don't have any wood in the house or there's a fire again and I kind of knew the answer before I got on to Google news so there's a bunch of fire crews emergency services from around Israel I think Greece was talking about and you can just see again how intense that smoke is so very happy that I have a kn95 here I have asthma so that's always kind of a concern with this but yeah just a really really shocking site that can be seen from all over Jerusalem today but particularly in the south and facing west is where it's just kind of like at its most dramatic so really really crazy the cause as I mentioned in my last video is officially undetermined I believe the last time I checked but seems like very likely to me that the cause of this is going to be determined to be ecoterrorism by those intent on causing havoc already a bunch of houses burned down in those villages fire fighters working around the clock to try save as many of those towns as they possibly could and hopefully it'll just it'll it'll I'm trying not to look at the sun but it's just the most distinctive and strange color of orange if you didn't know what was going on you think it was like a kind of planet or something it's just really really breathtaking and this is as I said above Kenyon Hadar in Jerusalem sorry for the bad camera work and the bad footage it's shot on my phone so the I can see the focus is struggling here that is a situation today here in Jerusalem