Acompanhe neste video o resgate de uma vitima do terremoto no Haiti realizado pela equipe do exercito de Israel. Leia mais

Arele Klein, voluntário do grupo israelense de resgate ZAKA, está escrevendo o dia-a-dia no Haiti em seu diário pessoal. Veja abaixo alguns trechos de sua rotina e algumas fotos do trabalho. Leia mais

A repórter da CNN fica maravilhada ao conhecer o hospital israelense no Haiti e seus voluntários. Leia mais

Os 1.200 soldados brasileiros no Haiti fazem um trabalho heróico, um trabalho competente, um trabalho brilhante; parecem multiplicar-se no atendimento aos feridos, na distribuição de alimentos e água, na busca a sobreviventes.

O Governo brasileiro, com ciúmes dos Estados Unidos, é a face feia que mostramos no Exterior. Em vez de preocupar-se com vidas, reclama da entrada dos americanos na operação de socorro. E não há como concorrer com eles: cada navio-hospital americano transporta mais gente do que o Brasil tem por lá. O correto é colaborar (e, se houver reclamações, deixá-las para depois que passar o pior da crise). O problema é o ciúme de homem, que dizem ser o pior dos ciúmes. E nem chega bem a ser ciúme de homem, já que a chanceler americana é mulher.

Muitos países estão fazendo o que podem, e aceitam, como solução mais adequada, o controle dos aeroportos pelos americanos. França, Alemanha, Canadá, Israel, Holanda até agora não se preocuparam com filigranas diplomáticas no gigantesco trabalho de ajuda às vítimas do terremoto. Este papel ficou para o Brasil – exatamente o país que mais se engrandeceu com o trabalho de suas equipes, um trabalho muito acima de suas possibilidades, mas que ameaça ser sufocado, em termos de imagem internacional, pelos enciumadinhos de Brasília.

Nas áreas mais radicais, já surgiram suspeitas de que foram os EUA, com mísseis, que causaram o terremoto. É mais um problema que só países ricos podem resolver: quem mais poderia fornecer rapidamente as camisas de força?

El hermano supremo

Um dos críticos mais contundentes da ação americana no Haiti é o presidente da Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. Chávez já chegou a vender petróleo mais barato para comunidades carentes americanas, para aliviar seus problemas de aquecimento. No caso do Haiti, por que não se terão ainda aberto os cofres venezuelanos?

Do Oriente Médio também seguiu ajuda para o Haiti. Os israelenses, que têm vasta experiência em situação de emergência por causa de atentados, mandaram médicos e equipes de resgate. Leia mais

O hospital de campanha israelense estabelecido pelas Forças de Defesa de Israel (IDF) inclui, além de vários equipamentos modernos, uma unidade de terapia intensiva e incubadoras para bebês recém-nascidos. Leia mais

Na segunda-feira (18) à noite, as equipes israelenses de busca e salvamento no Haiti auxiliaram no resgate de duas estudantes que estavam soterradas pelos escombros de uma Universidade em Porto Príncipe. Leia mais

(Fisesp) A comunidade judaica brasileira esteve representada pelo rabino Alexandre Leone, do Bnei Chalutizm de Alphaville, na visita que o papa Bento XVI fez neste domingo, 17 de janeiro, à Grande Sinagoga de Roma, quando o pontífice repetiu gesto feito há mais de 20 anos por seu antecessor, o papa João Paulo II. O rabino Leone viajou a convite da Confederação Israelita do Brasil. O papa Bento XVI foi recebido pelo presidente da Comunidade Hebraica de Roma, Riccardo Pacifici, e pelo presidente das Comunidades Hebraicas italianas, Renzo Gattegna.

Nas primeiras horas da noite, horário de Israel, a equipe de resgate ZAKA recebeu um pedido de ajuda do Canadá, especificamente da família de Alexander (Shmuel) Bitton, que tinha acabado de chegar ao Montana Hotel em Port-au-Prince, quando o terremoto aconteceu. A sede da Zaka em Jerusalém transmitiu os detalhes para a delegação no Haiti, e a equipe prontamente começou a trabalhar em conjunto a equipe do exercito isralense, que também está ajudando o Haiti.

Segundo Yacov Vag, membro da Zaka, a equipe recebeu informações detalhadas sobre as pessoas desaparecidas e a localização do hotel. Além disso, a equipe possui um relato em primeira-mão da sua colega Martin, que estava no hotel com Alex e o viu pela última vez no recepção do hotel. Martin já havia recebido as chaves do seu quarto e Alex havia ficado na recepção para resolver um problema no momento do check-in.

Martin desceu, o problema foi resolvido e ele retornou ao seu quarto. Posteriormente, ele foi para o bar onde marcaram um encontro. Foi neste momento que o terremoto aconteceu, e Martin ainda estava à beira da piscina, alguns minutos depois que viu Alex pela última vez. “A delegação ZAKA no Haiti, a primeira delegação israelense a chegar na área do desastre, resgatou 8 sobreviventes feridos. No entanto, as equipes de salvamento no Haiti são realistas sobre as chances de encontrar sobreviventes nos escombros, nesta fase do resgate.

Nasce o primeiro bebê no hospital israelense instalado no Haiti.

Veja as fotos do resgate de uma garota de 6 anos realizado pela equipe isralense de resgate israAID. Após o resgate, a garotinha recebeu o pronto atendimento médico e encontra-se em plena recuperação.

ZAKA DELEGATION RESCUES 8 ALIVE FROM THE COLLAPSED PORT AU PRINCE UNIVERSITY BUILDING

AFTER 38 HOURS, THE ZAKA INTERNATIONAL RESCUE UNIT DELEGATION IN HAITI PULLED EIGHT STUDENTS ALIVE FROM THE COLLAPSED UNIVERSITY BUILDING ON SATURDAY
ZAKA delegation head: “You have to understand that the situation is true madness, and the more time passes, there are more and more bodies, in numbers that cannot be grasped. It is beyond comprehension.” It was a “Shabbat from hell” for the ZAKA International Rescue Unit delegation in Haiti. The six man ZAKA delegation (four from Israel and two from Mexico) had arrived in Haiti aboard a Mexican air force Hercules, immediately after completing their work in recovery and identification in the Mexico City helicopter crash. On arrival, the ZAKA delegation was dispatched to the collapsed 8-storey university building where cries could be heard from the trapped students. After 38 hours of work around the clock working with the Mexican military delegation and otehr Jewish volunteers from Mexico, the ZAKA volunteers succeeded Saturday in pulling eight students alive from the rubble. In a disturbing email that Mati Goldstein, head of the ZAKA International Rescue Unit delegation managed to send to the ZAKA headquarters in Jerusalem, he writes of the “Shabbat from hell. Everywhere, the acrid smell of bodies hangs in the air. It’s just like the stories we are told of the Holocaust – thousands of bodies everywhere. You have to understand that the situation is true madness, and the more time passes, there are more and more bodies, in numbers that cannot be grasped. It is beyond comprehension.” Amid the stench and chaos, the ZAKA delegation took time out to recite Shabbat prayers – a surreal sight of ultra-orthodox men wrapped in prayer shawls standing on the collapsed buildings. Many locals sat quietly in the rubble, staring at the men as they prayed facing Jerusalem. At the end of the prayers, they crowded around the delegation and kissed the prayer shawls. Due to the breakdown in communications in Haiti, the ZAKA delegation which arrived from Mexico was unable to make contact before Shabbat with the Israeli Home Front Command delegation that is now in Haiti.

ISRAAID MEDICAL TEAM TREATS INJURED IN PORT-AU-PRINCE HOSPITAL

The IsraAID medical team hit ground running. Just minutes after landing in the airport in Port-au-prince the IsraAID team was met by David Darg, Operation Blessing Director in the field and his staff and joined with them to unload a planeload of food and medical equipment. The Israeli medical professionals of IsraAID – F.I.R.S.T. traveled to the main Port-au-prince Hospital to start treating patients, joining local physicians at the site of the collapsed central hospital where thousands of wounded have gathered desperate for help. “The scenes in the hospital were horrible we saw people everywhere on the floors in the building and outside, people with amputations and bone-deep wounds, hundreds of them, the size of the catastrophe is unbelievable. All of the injured were treated until we came by only one local doctor and we were the first foreign backup team to operate in the hospital.” Said Nurse Sheva Cohen from Kibbutz Ein Yahav in the Negev. When the team arrived at the hospital they found most of the injured outside the building laying in beds in the building’s garden, probably out of fear of aftershocks and further collapse. The IsraAID team set up treatment rooms in four empty rooms, treating 60 patients with IV and administered medicine. While in the hospital, an infant with 60% burns died and bodies that had not yet been removed for burial were piled up in back. In the meantime, the logistical personnel remain in the airport area to set up camp and assist local NGO partners with logistical support for relief items that were continuing to land. Currently the teams are working around the clock to provide assistance to the injured. In light of the scale of the disaster, IsraAID is currently focused on expanding the scale of its operation, preparing an additional team that would be sent next week. IsraAID’s emergency response in Haiti is supported through the generous donations of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, American Jewish Committee, Bna’i B’rith International, and The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago in addition to other Federations in the North America.

IDF MEDICAL AND RESCUE TEAM HAS SET UP A FIELD HOSPITAL, BEGINNING TO RESCUE AND TREAT HUNDREDS

The IDF Medical and Rescue Team has arrived in Haiti, set up a field hospital in Port-Au-Prince and is beginning to treat patients there. In addition, the forces are locating and rescuing survivors trapped in ruined buildings, including many who were injured during the collapse of the UN headquarters. The field hospital is prepared to receive dozens of ambulances evacuating injured children from the different disaster struck areas. Between Friday night and Saturday, dozens of truckloads of medical and logistical equipment were unloaded and the field hospital set up. The Israeli delegation landed in the capital of Port-Au-Prince yesterday evening and has located itself in a soccer field near the air port. Upon arrival, C4I teams deployed communications infrastructure in preparations for the hospital’s establishment. Two teams, comprised of search and rescue personnel and canine operators from the IDF canine unit were sent out on rescue missions. The first team was sent to the Haiti UN headquarters in order to assist in rescuing survivors. The rescue teams are working in cooperation with local authorities in order to reach disaster struck areas where survivors can be located and assisted. The delegation is scheduled to stay in Haiti for a minimum of two weeks. Further stay will be assessed at the end of this period.

SHABBAT IN HELL

THE ZAKA INTERNATIONAL RESCUE UNIT DELEGATION IN HAITI PULLED EIGHT STUDENTS ALIVE FROM THE COLLAPSED UNIVERSITY BUILDING, 38 HOURS AFTER THE BUILDING COLLAPSED. ZAKA delegation head: “You have to understand that the situation is true madness, and the more time passes, there are more and more bodies, in numbers that cannot be grasped. It is beyond comprehension.” It was a “Shabbat from hell” for the ZAKA International Rescue Unit delegation in Haiti. The six man ZAKA delegation (four from Israel and two from Mexico) arrived in Haiti aboard a Mexican air force Hercules, immediately after completing their work in recovery and identification in the Mexico City helicopter crash. On arrival, the ZAKA delegation was dispatched to the collapsed 8-storey university building where cries could be heard from the trapped students. After hours of work around the clock and working with rescue equipment provided by the Mexican military, the ZAKA volunteers succeeded in pulling eight students alive from the rubble, 38 hours after the building collapsed in the earthquake. In a disturbing email that Mati Goldstein, head of the ZAKA International Rescue Unit delegation managed to send to the ZAKA headquarters in Jerusalem, he writes of the “Shabbat from hell. Everywhere, the acrid smell of bodies hangs in the air. It’s just like the stories we are told of the Holocaust – thousands of bodies everywhere. You have to understand that the situation is true madness, and the more time passes, there are more and more bodies, in numbers that cannot be grasped. It is beyond comprehension.” Amid the stench and chaos, the ZAKA delegation took time out to recite Shabbat prayers – a surreal sight of ultra-orthodox men wrapped in prayer shawls standing on the collapsed buildings. Many locals sat quietly in the rubble, staring at the men as they prayed facing Jerusalem. At the end of the prayers, they crowded around the delegation and kissed the prayer shawls. Due to the breakdown in communications in Haiti, the ZAKA delegation which arrived from Mexico was unable to make contact before Shabbat with the Israeli Home Front Command delegation that is now in Haiti.