After two months of training which covered  fire fighting tools and techniques, rescue and first aid tools and practices with particular focus on water accidents, the Palestinian Civil Defense Brigadier Ahmad Rizig congratulated 30 boys and girls at the Beit Sahoor center of the East Jerusalem Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and delivered them the “Young Rescuer” certificate.

The World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean produced the WHO e-Atlas of disaster risk for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Volume 1: Exposure to natural hazards. The e-Atlas uses geographic information systems and various disaster models to assist disaster management decision-makers to reduce health risks to vulnerable populations due to emergencies and health crises. This tool can be used to help predict the magnitude of a disaster on a specific population, to assess where damage might be the greatest and to forecast specific resources which may be required.

For Palestine, the e-Atlas contains a set of maps and supporting documents explaining methodology and providing metadata that illustrate the distribution of natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, heat, wind, and landslides), as well as estimates of the sizes of populations exposed to such hazards.

WHO e-Atlas of disaster risk for the Eastern Mediterranean

An Official Statement made by Jalal Al Dabbeek, Associate professor, Director of Earth Sciences and seismic Engineering Center at An Najah National University, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, at the second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, June 2009. The Statement is based the Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Source Preventionweb.

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