
IDF medical delegation touches down in quake-stricken Turkey to set up field hospital
A large Israel Defense Forces aid delegation to Turkey lands in the country’s southeast to establish a field hospital to treat victims of the devastating earthquake,
The IDF says 15 Air Force cargo planes carried hundreds of tons of equipment and 230 participants in order to set up the hospital in the coming hours.
- The IDF already has some 150 search and rescue experts on the ground working to rescue civilians trapped under the rubble.
The hospital will be built near where the search and rescue teams are operating in the city of Kahramanmaraş, also known as Marash.
Source: TOI
A 15-year-old girl is successfully pulled out of a collapsed building by Israeli and local rescuers.
She has been loaded into a waiting ambulance and is being taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
- Israeli rescue teams have already pulled out four other survivors from underneath collapsed buildings in southeast Turkey.
Source: TOI