Some more from the Time of Israel link I shared just above. No amount of censorship--even in a small garrison country like Israel--can hide what's going on in the Information Age!
This looks really dire for Israel!!
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That is because thousands of soldiers and members of security forces have been wounded since Hamas terrorists stormed into southern Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and taking over 240 people hostage — mostly civilians — amid horrific acts of brutality.
In addition, the evacuation of an estimated 200,000 civilians from their homes in the south and the north of the country has left thousands of civilians, in particular elderly and disabled evacuees without medical equipment such as home hospital beds, shower chairs, lifts, or oxygen concentrators, which Yad Sarah lends for free.
“The unprecedented demand has resulted in nationwide shortages, necessitating our urgent efforts to replenish tens of thousands of pieces of vital medical items despite diminished wartime shipping, supply chain obstacles, and heightened costs exacerbated by regional hostilities,” Cohen said.
Cohen added that with growing concern over the escalation on the country’s northern border, Yad Sarah started to prepare to meet growing demand and bought additional medical equipment to bolster hospital supplies and the group’s branches in the north, which is now expected to arrive with a delay of weeks if not months. Yad Sarah has a network of more than 7,000 volunteers spread over 120 branches throughout Israel.
Since the start of the war, mainly during the first month, Yad Sarah lent 46,150 pieces of medical equipment, and delivered and installed home hospitalization equipment for 1,082 families to allow more
soldiers and civilians who suffered injuries to be released from the hospital to recover at home.
Given the uncertainty over the duration and extent of the war, Cohen said that the organization has been seeking to find alternative solutions to be able to account for shortages in medical equipment, in particular oxygen concentrators and continuous passive Motion (CPM) therapy devices used in physiotherapy, and has also expanded its operations to support the prolonged rehabilitation of over 2,500 soldiers.
“We have reached out to individuals who have loaned equipment and asked for it to be returned immediately if no longer needed,” Cohen said. “We are trying to ship some supplies from Europe where possible, and fly in supplies, but the costs, in particular for equipment arriving by plane is up to four times the maritime shipping cost from the Far East depending on the weight and volume of the item.”