Israeli military search and rescue teams operating in southeast Turkey save a 7-year-old girl from a collapsed building a short while ago, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The girl’s uncle gifts one of the IDF Home Front Command rescuers an old coin as a token of gratitude.
The rescue brings to 12 the total number of Turkish civilians the IDF teams have managed to rescue alive from the rubble as a result of the devastating earthquake.
Source: TOI
Header: This handout photo from the IDF shows a 7-year-old Turkish girl who was rescued by the Israeli team from a building that collapsed in the deadly earthquake, February 9, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
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- Officials and medics say 16,546 people have died in Turkey and 3,317 in Syria from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude tremor, bringing the confirmed total to 19,863. Experts fear the number will continue to rise sharply.
Palestinian emergency responders left the West Bank today to assist with rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria.
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- A Palestinian civil defense team including members of the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Palestinian Red Crescent pose for a group photo before they travel to Syria and Turkey, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said the Palestinian Authority will dispatch two humanitarian missions to assist in Syria and Turkey. The aid missions will include civil defense and medical teams. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
- Imad Zuhairi, director of the Palestinian International Cooperation Agency, says 73 doctors, paramedics and specialists will travel to neighboring Jordan, and from there one team will be dispatched to Turkey and the other to Syria.