Hamas: Fires in Israel are divine punishment...

Well, now we know the source of the fires...

The de-facto Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday that the massive forest fires in northern Israel served as a "strike from Allah [God]."

Commenting on the fires in Israel, which killed 41 Israelis and burnt more than 50 square kilometers of forest, Hamas' Haniyeh told reporters that "those fires are divine strikes for what they [Israel] did.