The fire, which covers an area the size of a football pitch, broke out in fermenting green waste on 30 November.

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The fire, which covers an area the size of a football pitch, broke out in 1, 000 tonnes of fermenting wood mulch on 30 November.

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After all, in spite of Israel's sure knowledge last summer that Hamas and Iran would use a cease-fire with Israel to increase the size of Hamas's missile arsenal and expand the range of its projectiles while building up its forces, the Olmert-Livni-Barak government agreed to the cease-fire.

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The EIA report has added fuel to that fire, as it will be hard for the world to ignore a fuel resource of this size.

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