Young Jewish Leadership PAC

Haitian President Rene Preval on Thursday said his country appreciated the aid that Israel has provided to those hurt in last week’s devastating earthquake.

Brig.-Gen. Shalom Ben-Aryeh, commander of the Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince, said that the IDF delegation would return home only after it was confident that the wounded were receiving proper treatment.

The United States is supposed to begin receiving more patients on a ship-based hospital on Sunday. Until then, the only real functioning facilities are being run by the IDF and the Russians, who have opened a small 20-bed field hospital.

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