Israel to Send Fire-Fighting Aircraft to Help in the Amazon

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Israeli government is sending an aircraft to assist the Brazilian military in fighting the fires in the Amazon rainforest.

The information was released yesterday, August 25th, by Federal Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro after a meeting at the Palácio da Alvorada with President Jair Bolsonaro, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, and international affairs advisor to the presidency, Filipe Martins.

The meeting began around 3 PM and ran for about two hours.

According to Eduardo Bolsonaro on his Twitter, the sending of aid was settled after a phone call between the Brazilian president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“In a phone call today between PR @jairbolsonaro and PM @netanyahu, Brazil accepted the help offered by Israel of an aircraft fitted with firefighting equipment, which will combine efforts with the Armed Forces’ mission in the Amazon,” wrote the deputy.

Furthermore, he reported that the destination of the Israeli aircraft is to be determined by the Brazilian military.

Subsequently, President Bolsonaro himself, on Twitter, confirmed his conversation with the Israeli leader and the air support to defeat the forest fires. In a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he acknowledged Brazil’s efforts to fight the fires in the Amazon.

“We accept Israel’s dispatch of aircraft with specialized support to cooperate with us in this operation,” the president said.

Earlier, an order of President Bolsonaro published in an extra edition of the Federal Gazette authorized the deployment of the Armed Forces to fight forest fires in Acre, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas. As a result, seven states have now requested federal support for their fire-fighting operations.

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