Along with India, Israel has launched a major relief mission in the earthquake hit Nepal.
However, with the Nepalese authorities short of human resources themselves to depute support and guide to international aid teams, the latter have been using its own networks in Nepal to independently move to remote areas and carry out the rescue and relief.
Israel has begun taking the help of Nepalese farmers who earlier got advanced agricultural training at Israel's Arava international centre.
Likewise, India, has been already coordinating its relief efforts with the ex-Gurkha soldiers who worked in the Indian army.
Although a multinational military coordination has been set up in Kathmandu by the Nepalese army, country officials have reportedly told the international aid missions to not depend on them for logistical support beyond a point.
Israeli rescue teams are now going outside Kathmandu to offer assistance to distant villages that were unable to receive assistance till now due to the bad condition of roads, said an Israeli embassy spokesperson in New Delhi. "Our teams reached 17 villages, 150km north east of Kathmandu. The team are using jeeps offered to them by local Nepalese citizens who are veterans of Israel's agriculture training programs in Arava (south Israel)," said the spokesperson.
200 small farmers from Nepal had undergone training at Arava in 2013. Many of them are now turning resourceful assisting the Israeli team reach far flung areas.
Embassy of Israel in Delhi is shipping to Kathmandu, medical and food supplies, purchased in India, to support the rescue mission and operation of the field hospital, the spokesperson said.
With 125 personnel in the Israeli team - after the Indian aid team- it is the largest in manpower which is at work in Nepal. Israel, the spokesperson informed, has set up its biggest ever field hospital. The hospital is operating in coordination with the local army hospital and can treat 200 patients a day. On its first day of operation, the hospital staff treated about 100 patients on Thursday.
