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Expert IDF Team Brings Israeli Aid to Phillipines Region

November 17, 2013 By eJP

IDF-del.-at-BGA 148 member IDF delegation has arrived in the Philippines to provide search, rescue, and medical services in the Typhoon-struck city of Tacloban, capital of the Leyte Province.

SHY_6930An advanced multi-department medical facility, equipped with approximately 100 tons of humanitarian and medical supplies from Israel, was rapidly established to provide medical care for disaster casualties. The facility includes a children’s department, a women’s department, an ambulatory care department and a general admission department, operated by IDF doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, mental health professionals, x-ray technician and lab workers.

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  1. Leon Weissberg says

    November 18, 2013 at 2:06 pm

    Why isn’t this information in the main street press? Where are the Musliim nations who have a common religious unity with Indonesia and their assistance to their brothers & sisters? All the Federations and synagogues have begun campaigns to help the victims, regardless of their religious beliefs … We still believe in Tikkun Olam

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