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| April 9, 2015
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IsraAID offers Kenyans with post trauma treatment after Christians murdered

IsraAID offers assistance after Islamic terror group separated the Muslim students from the non-Muslims then killed over 150 Christians while injuring an additional 79.

By ARIEL COHEN

 

Following the horrific massacre by the radical Muslim terror group al-Shabab from Somalia which killed over 150 Christian students in Kenya, the Israeli relief group IsraAID is helping Kenyan government officials deal with the tragedy.

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Relative of victim of Thursday’s terror attack in Kenya. – Photo: REUTERS

IsraAID is currently holding discussions with Kenyan government counterparts as well as with the local Kenyan Red Cross and UN officials in hopes of creating a grief and disaster management plan for the government, modeled off the Israeli plan. Continue Reading »

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| March 22, 2015
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Israel Sends Aid to Cyclone-Ravaged Tiny Island Nation

Light Unto the Nations: IsraAID has dispatched an emergency team providing food, medical assistance & and other basic needs to help the citizens of Vanuatu.

Yossi Aloni

 

Israeli international aid organization IsraAID has dispatched an emergency team to the Oceanic island nation of Vanuatu after it was ravaged by a tropical cyclone.

Vanuatu – Courtesy Google Maps

More than 90 percent of the population of 250,000 has reportedly been left homeless and destitute by Tropical Cyclone Pam.

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  5. Israelis quietly feeding Syrian refugees in Jordan
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IsraAID is joined in providing food and other basic needs by several other international aid agencies, as well as UN and local government bodies. Continue Reading »

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| February 12, 2015
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Israeli aid group providing humanitarian support for Iraqi refugees

Christian, Yazidi & Kurdish refugees have been receiving humanitarian assistance from IsraAid, which will soon begin providing a schooling framework.
• Shachar Zahavi, founding director of IsraAid: ‘Our primary goal now is to help the children.’

By Shlomo Cesana

 

Kurdish, Yazidi and Christian refugees in northern Iraq, escaping Islamic State rule, have been receiving help from Israeli aid organization IsraAid, which will soon begin providing a schooling framework for the children.

A refugee camp in northern Iraq [Archive] – Photo: AP

Founding director of IsraAid, Shachar Zahavi, told Israel Hayom that aid to this point has focused on providing basic materials, but the goal now was to help the vulnerable populations, first and foremost the children.

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| October 19, 2014
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IsraAID in Iraq Delivering Emergency Relief to Kurds

Tikon Olam: As winter misery intensifies, an Israeli Aid Agency is providing desperately-needed supplies to refugees (mostly Kurds) from ISIS’s onslaught, including baby milk & warm blankets.

By Ari Soffer

 

Israeli humanitarian workers have joined the effort to provide desperately-needed supplies to displaced victims of the brutal Islamic State terrorist group in northern Iraq and Syria.

IsraAID supplied beds, blankets, and food to over 1,000 families in the Kurdish city of Duhok, in northern Iraq. The Israeli aid agency worked with Canadian ONEXONE to deliver a convoy to a 14,000-strong refugee camp carrying 2,000 blankets and mattresses, as well as enough powdered milk for all the 1,015 babies under one year of age. Continue Reading »

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| September 21, 2014
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Israeli NGO joining int’l efforts to combat Ebola outbreak

Israel’s humanitarian assistance group IsraAID, announced it is sending a team of trained medical personal to join int’l community’s fight against deadly virus in Western Africa.

 

Israel is increasing its assistance effort to help combat Ebola in Africa, Israel media reported Sunday.

Ebola in Liberia

Health workers wearing protective gear go to remove the body of a person who is believed to have died after contracting the Ebola virus in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. August 16, 2014. – Photo: AP

IsraAID, the Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, announced on its Facebook page Friday that it is sending a team to join the international community in fighting the spread of Ebola in Western Africa.

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| April 2, 2014
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IsraAID dispatches delegation to Bulgaria to help Syrian refugees

 

First Jordan, now Israeli humanitarian group IsraAID went to Bulgaria to render assistance for additional influx of Syrian refugees.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Israel continues to reach out to aid refugees of the ongoing Syrian civil war, this time by sending assistance to refugee camps in Bulgaria.

Israeli Aid Follows Syrian Refugees to Europe

Israeli Aid Follows Syrian Refugees to Europe

The Israeli NGO umbrella group IsraAID last week dispatched a delegation to Bulgaria to help deal with the influx of Syrian refugees arriving in the eastern European nation via neighboring Turkey.

There are currently about 11,000 Syrian refugees living in three camps in Bulgaria, including two camps in the capital of Sofia. Continue Reading »

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| December 16, 2013
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Failed Coup in South Sudan imperiled Israeli aid group in capital

 

President Salva Kiir, of South Sudan, announced on Monday that he had successfully put down a coup attempt by soldiers loyal to fired Deputy President Riek Machar. Because of tension in the capital, IsraAid put its operations in the country on lockdown.

By JTA

 

Intense fighting amid a coup attempt in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, has forced the Israeli aid group IsraAid to suspend its operations in the country and go on lockdown.

James Lago, a street merchant in Juba, South Sudan, with the Israeli flag. - Photo: Armin Rosen

James Lago, a street merchant in Juba, South Sudan, with the Israeli flag. – Photo: Armin Rosen

The heavy gunfire in Juba began late Sunday night.

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| November 18, 2013
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Israeli medical personnel delivered 12 babies in the Philippines

The 12 babies, most premature, were delivered in Israel’s field hospital. The newborns are being cared for in incubators brought by the IDF as part of their field hospital.

 

 

JERUSALEM — At least 12 babies, most premature, have been delivered in Israel’s field hospital in the Philippines — including one named Israel.

screenshot – NBC News

The hospital is seeing about 300 patients a day, many injured in last week’s Typhoon Haiyan or unable to care for chronic conditions due to lack of running water or electricity.  The premature babies are being cared for in incubators brought by the Israel Defense Forces as part of the field hospital.

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| November 12, 2013
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IDF field hospital sent to the Philippines

 

The Foreign Ministry announced that Israel would send a search & rescue team with experience in searching damaged buildings, as well as medical staff and a field hospital.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

 

The IDF will send a humanitarian mission to assist victims of the Typhoon in the Philippines, army sources said.

Soldier preparing supplies for the Philippines – Photo Courtesy IDF

The mission, headed by Col. Ramtin Sabati, who commands the National Rescue Unit, will contain medical staff and a field hospital, and will head out to the storm-stricken areas on Wednesday. The decision came following an evaluation meeting held by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Continue Reading »

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| November 11, 2013
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Israel sends IsraAID advance medical team to Philippines

 

Israel sent its first advance team of 7 medical professionals to the storm-ravaged Philippines on Saturday night seeking to understand and evaluate scale of injury.

By HAYLEY MUNGUIA
 

 

The IsraAID humanitarian organization sent a team of 7 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.
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| November 10, 2013
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IDF reports Israeli emergency responders heading to Philippines

1st responders are medical professionals, trauma & relief specialists. A larger team is expected to land by the end of the week, according to IsraAid.

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JERUSALEM — The Israeli disaster relief organization IsraAid is sending an emergency response team to the Philippines to the areas hardest hit by Typhoon Haivan.

IsraAID Team on its way to Typhoon-hit Philippines

The team of medical professionals and trauma and relief specialists are scheduled to arrive in the Philippines on Monday, working primarily in Tacloban City in Leyte. A larger team is expected to land by the end of the week, according to IsraAid.

The death toll in the typhoon, which made landfall in the central Philippines on Friday, could be at least 10,000, according to reports that emerged Sunday, citing local officials.

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| October 22, 2013
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Israelis quietly feeding Syrian refugees in Jordan

An Israeli humanitarian aid nonprofit, IsraAid, is discreetly providing food & aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan.

 

MAFRAQ, Jordan (JTA) — The purple plastic sacks fill two rooms in the otherwise sparsely furnished headquarters of a Jordanian NGO, awaiting distribution to Syrian refugees already lined up on the sidewalk.

Syrian refugees in a small refugee camp outside the Jordanian city of Mafraq collecting supplies funded by IsraAid, an Israeli humanitarian aid organization. (Mickey Alon)

Syrian refugees in a small refugee camp outside the Jordanian city of Mafraq collect supplies funded by IsraAid, an Israeli humanitarian aid organization – Photo: Mickey Alon

They contain an array of staple dry goods — lentils, pasta, powdered milk, tea — as well as a range of hygiene products like soap and detergent, enough for 250 refugee families. Continue Reading »

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