Yesterday IsraAID sent a second medical team to Haiti. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israel is
working in partnership with other international teams to assess the situation in the surrounding hill area and to determine the medical needs on the ground including post-trauma interventions and with the movement of victims to refugee camps the purchase of additional relief items to sustain them.
The Israeli MFA issued a long communique today listing a full assessment of all the aid that Israel agencies have sent since disaster struck Haiti more than a week ago.
The media have shown coverage of, and expressed admiration for the Israeli field hospitals. The MFA lists the following news reports:
News reports on Israeli aid mission:
– Fox News (16 Jan): Makeshift ICU saving lives in Haiti
– AP Video (16 Jan): Israeli pulls man from rubble in Port-au- Prince
– Fox News (17Jan): Israeli doctors in Haiti
– Sky News (17 Jan): Sky reporter spends a day in the rubble with Israeli rescue team
– IBA News (17 Jan): Israeli rescue team in Haiti
– LA Times (17 Jan): Israel: Sending soldiers of peace to Haiti
– TF1 (17): Les miraculés de Port-au-Prince
– CBS News (18 Jan): Israeli IDF hospital the “Rolls Royce” of medicine in Haiti
– ABC News (18 Jan): Miracle birth amid Haiti’s rubble
– WABC News (18 Jan): Brother of Queens NY resident rescued from rubble by Israeli rescue team
– U.N. MINUSTAH (Jan 18): Haiti: Israeli field hospital working around the clock
– NBC News (18 Jan):Medical response in Haiti
– CNN report (18 Jan): Patients desperate for better medical care
– NBC News (19 Jan): Field hospital a model for crisis care
– CNN report (19 Jan): Israel aids Haiti – Israeli field hospital in Haiti has treated hundreds of patients
Reports on UK TV, especially ITV, have shown the work of the IDF medical teams including a moving piece about a maternity ward the IDF medics had set up.
Yesterday the BBC showed an Israeli officer reporting on a survivor they had pulled out but although the officer spoke with a clear Israeli accent and had an Israeli flag badge on his uniform the BBC did not mention the fact that he was Israeli. The reporter was Orla Guerin, so no surprise there.
A couple of YouTube videos from the MFA report:
IDF Medical Team
IDF Rescue Team
This is the same IDF that has been accused of war crimes in Gaza.
This disaster has show the best of Israel and also the best of mankind with so many countries providing help and aid. Israel has just 7 million people and is several thousand miles from Haiti. This is a proud time for Israelis. This is the true face of Israel and the Jewish people. Nothing better expresses why the world should be supporting the Jewish State instead of trying to destroy it. Nothing better exposes the lies of Israel’s enemies than the Israeli actions in Haiti.
It’s magnificent.