(Video) Why We Came to Help in the Philippines - IDF Humanitarian Aid Team

idfblog.com..
24 November '13..

The IDF Humanitarian Aid team in Bogo City is made up of some of Israel’s top medical and disaster relief experts. We asked some of them what motivated them to join the IDF’s team in the typhoon-struck Philippines.



They are specialists, doctors, nurses and commanders. They speak more than seven languages. They are all different, but they came to the Philippines with one goal: to give people hope in their darkest hour. They are the IDF. We salute them.

Link: http://www.idfblog.com/2013/11/24/idf-humanitarian-aid-team-came-help-philippines/

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Hamas could have had a field hospital too

Carl in Jerusalem
Israel Matzav
26 January '10

Former IDF southern commander Yom Tov Samia reminds us that Hamas could have had a field hospital just like the one the IDF deployed in Haiti during and at the end of Operation Cast Lead. Hamas turned it down. Two weeks later, Israel closed it because there were no patients.

First, let's remember some facts before criticizing the relief mission for the victims in Haiti. Israel and the Israel Defense Forces gave Gazans the option to be treated at a field hospital near the Erez crossing (both during Operation Cast Lead and afterward). Who prevented this? That's right, Hamas.

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