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Haiti earthquake death toll hits 111,481 (videos, photos)

 

Haiti earthquake death toll hits 111,481 (videos, photos)

From the beginning of the devastating January 14, 2010 7.0 magnitude Haiti earthquake, Haitian officials estimated the death toll between 100,000-200,000. The Red Cross had given early numbers such as 45,000-50,000 and a previous official count was at 72,000. Today, the Haitian government has stated that the confirmed official death toll is 111,481. More than 600,000 people have been left homeless.

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Today marks the eleventh day since the catastrophic earthquake and though there are still miraculous stories of survival being unveiled, the search and rescue efforts, led by the Haitian government, have officially ended. The United Nations announced that 132 people were rescued from the rubble as a result of international search and rescue team efforts. The United Nations said that though the operations in Haiti have shifted to ‘recovery’ they did state that search and rescues will continue. The U.N. released a statement that reads, “Rescue teams continue to work in Port-au- Prince.”

As the death toll is expected to rise, many relief workers are still struggling with getting much needed aid on the ground, to the people who need it most. There remains a shortage of medical supplies but there has been progress. Today, a new hospital was opened in the middle of Port-au-Prince. The hospital is equipped with 250 beds, making it the largest in Haiti. It is staffed by physicians from the University of Miami and has been named the “University of Miami Haiti Campus Hospital.”

 

 

 


Haiti Earthquake Videos

 

A man walks among earthquake victims after carrying a body to the pile near a cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday leaving thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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  • rabbi 2 years ago
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    Zionist Jew and Chief Rabbi of the Sanhedrin, John Hagee, needs your help and only you can do it – you meaning “stupid dumb schitt Americans” (SDSAs). And we here an Mantiq al-Tayr are always on the lookout for ways to help SDSAs do what they do best – support Israel. For the only way to really serve Rabbi Hagee is to serve Israel. Not only that, but the only way to give to the poor, to aid the needy, to help the helpless, is to do so through Israel.

  • rabbi 2 years ago
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    And today, not only can you give to Israel so it can kill Palestinians, Hagee informs us that the only way to help the suffering masses of Haiti is to do so by giving money to Israel so Israel can save Haiti from the recent American invasion of that country. Oh, not quite, got that wrong. You need to help Israeli efforts in Haiti to make Israel’s image in the media look better so that Israel can continue to massacre the Palestinians while the main $tream media, owned entirely by Islamofascists, wildly exaggerates and blathers on and on about how Israeli is saving Haitians.

  • rabbi 2 years ago
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    So giving money to Hagee to give to Israel to be used in Haiti has a double benefit: some Hatians get some treatment and more Palestinians can be killed at the same time. That’s two for one. What could be a better deal than that?

  • rabbi 2 years ago
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    So goys and girls get out your credit cards – if they aren’t maxed out already because you lost your job thanks to CAIR’s lobbying efforts on behalf of defenseless women and children, and max them out to help the Israelis get the medical equipment they need in Haiti. First of all the Israelis need:

  • rabbi 2 years ago
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    1. Organ transporting equipment. This one is for kidneys.
    And we have even better news. Just in case too many Haitian corpses have rotted away too much to be of use, the IDF in Haiti may need some organ donor creation equipment. And it turns out, and I’m sure this is not just a coincidence, that Trijicon suddenly has thousands of extra rifle scopes available for just this purpose.

  • rabbi 2 years ago
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    n fact, I bet if you ask, Trijicon will remove the New Testament references on the scope and replace them with ones from the Old Testament.

    Stuff like this: “With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens. “

    Or this:

    Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Katrina-Kasey -- Pop Media Examiner 2 years ago
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    This is horrible. I pray that Haiti can make a recovery. It is devastating to see what is happening. Haitians deserve much better than this. Everyone deserves a proper burial...it is just horrific to see this. I wish it wasn't taking so long to get the help that they need.

  • rabbi's buddy 2 years ago
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    after reading this article and the comments posted on it, i don't know who to cry more for. the palestinians, who die to occupy a block of isreal in order to protect stolen land (temple mount), or haiti, whose small, but growing muslim population now suffers because of earthquakes. maybe if they stayed in the desert, felating the camels, and beating their women into servitude, like usual, these kind of things wouldn't happen so often. the day we start forming our foreign policy based on what a bunch of modern day neanderthals think, we're all in trouble. let me guess, Rabbi lives in America, and thus it's all crap.

  • joey 2 years ago
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    thats sad fell sorry

  • grant 2 years ago
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    hi my name is grant i fell so sorry for all those people that had there lives at stake!!!

  • grant 2 years ago
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    i hate you

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