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The IsraAID humanitarian organization sent a team of seven medical
professionals to Tacloban City in the storm-ravaged Philippines on
Saturday night.
“It’s really hard to get any accurate numbers as
far as [the scale of the] damage is concerned,” IsraAID founding
director Shahar Zahavi said. “Since the area is so hard to reach right
now, there’s a lot of doubt about the actual statistics. It’ll take a
few days, but right now the most I can say is that people are comparing
it to the 2004 [Indian Ocean] tsunami” that killed 230,000 to 280,000 in
14 countries.
“The immediate goal and first priority is to be
aware of the whole injury side of the situation,” Zahavi said. “People
don’t have any more health facilities, so our first goal is health
intervention.”
The Foreign Ministry announced that Israel would
send a search and rescue team with experience in searching damaged
buildings, as well as a medical team.
A six-member advance team –
four people from the IDF Home Front Command and two from the Foreign
Ministry – left on Sunday night to evaluate what is needed on the ground
before Israel sends a larger mission.
Israel has frequently
offered aid in the wake of disasters overseas, such as the earthquake in
Haiti in January 2010 and an earthquake in Turkey in 2011."
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