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The Israeli organization IsraAID will be sending a team to help relief efforts in Texas which has been hit with massive flooding that has killed at least 21 people and that has prompted evacuations.
“IsraAID will be mobilizing its relief team from Israel to support the thousands of people impacted by these latest storms,” said Shachar Zahavi, IsraAID's Executive Director.
A team of ten IsraAID volunteers will depart for Texas on Sunday where they will help with removing debris from damaged houses, Zahavi told The Jerusalem Post.
The organization will be partnering with US disaster relief organization Team Rubicom and will be helping people in the Austin area.
The house clearing work will assist homeowners to turn to the the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to receive assistance, Zahavi said.
He added that the mission to Texas was not the first time that IsraAID has been involved in US disaster relief. Zahavi listed the floods in Denver and Detroit, wild fires in Washington, hurricanes in Oklahoma, Hurricane Sandy in New York and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans as other events where his organization lent assistance.
US President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration late on Friday for areas in Texas which has been hammered by record breaking rain.
Storms that battered North Texas on Thursday and Friday added more runoff to swollen rivers and prompted hundreds of calls for help in Dallas, where some areas saw up to seven inches (17.8 cm) of rain.
"Communities across the State of Texas have experienced devastating destruction, injury and - most tragically - loss of life due to the major and unceasing severe weather system that has been impacting our state for weeks," said Governor Greg Abbott, who has declared 70 counties disaster areas.
“IsraAID will be mobilizing its relief team from Israel to support the thousands of people impacted by these latest storms,” said Shachar Zahavi, IsraAID's Executive Director.
A team of ten IsraAID volunteers will depart for Texas on Sunday where they will help with removing debris from damaged houses, Zahavi told The Jerusalem Post.
The organization will be partnering with US disaster relief organization Team Rubicom and will be helping people in the Austin area.
The house clearing work will assist homeowners to turn to the the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to receive assistance, Zahavi said.
He added that the mission to Texas was not the first time that IsraAID has been involved in US disaster relief. Zahavi listed the floods in Denver and Detroit, wild fires in Washington, hurricanes in Oklahoma, Hurricane Sandy in New York and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans as other events where his organization lent assistance.
US President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration late on Friday for areas in Texas which has been hammered by record breaking rain.
Storms that battered North Texas on Thursday and Friday added more runoff to swollen rivers and prompted hundreds of calls for help in Dallas, where some areas saw up to seven inches (17.8 cm) of rain.
"Communities across the State of Texas have experienced devastating destruction, injury and - most tragically - loss of life due to the major and unceasing severe weather system that has been impacting our state for weeks," said Governor Greg Abbott, who has declared 70 counties disaster areas.
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