Israel said Tuesday, it established a mechanism to deliver aid to the Palestinians in the event of a major earthquake.
Rocked the earthquake measuring 5.5 on the degree of Israel and the occupied West Bank on Friday, which residents said that they are exposed to earthquakes as a result of the Syrian African rift, an extension of the northern Rift Valley of Africa.
Said Alon Rosen, director general of the Israeli Ministry of Civil Defense, "the assumption being that work on the basis of which is that they (the Palestinians) do not have the means to deal with such a disaster alone."
Due to Israel's control of the West Bank, they will host in the event of a major earthquake center of the United Nations to aid distribution of relief supplies received from abroad for the Israelis and the Palestinians.
The last major earthquake in the region in 1927 and killed hundreds of people, and the recurrence of such incidents usually every 80 or 90 years.
Rosen said that Israel decided last year to increase interest in the preparations for earthquakes, and added "by the international aid to the Palestinians was not something we deal with it, last September we realized that this was negligence."
The UN official, said that there is coordination with Israel, but Palestinians said he had not yet been consulted.
Major General Ahmed Rizk head of civil defense of the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank, "We have asked for years by the United Nations to find passages in the event of disasters to receive foreign aid in addition to building the capacity of Palestinian institution to absorb the first shock, but has not happened up to now deal with the Israelis."
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