
‘WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE’: Activists Spurn Israeli Help in Quake-Torn Venezuela
Pro-pally activists have revealed the location of an Israeli disaster relief-and-rescue team at a hotel in Caracas, saying, “We don’t want you here.”
Israel sent teams of experts in search and rescue, as well as medical teams with equipment to open mobile clinics wherever they are needed, following massive earthquakes in Venezuela that left nearly 50,000 people still missing, with nearly 3,000 confirmed deaths and more than 12,000 injured. They did this despite the anti-Israel hostility of Venezuela that led to its breaking diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009, putting kindness over politics.
But while Israel put kindness over politics, its critics could not bring themselves to reciprocate.
Dima Khatib, a former Latin American correspondent, posted her disgust in a written and video statement on social media.
“Israeli soldiers are in Caracas! A first in 17 years in Venezuela. Coming fresh from a genocide … hopping to an earthquake,” she wrote. In her video statement, she added in Spanish and English, “We don’t want you here.”
The Cradle, an online news magazine that is not only anti-Israel but also pro-Hamas, wrote that Israel sent rescue teams to Venezuela, then added, “The deployment has been slammed as a PR stunt, as Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza and crimes in Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank.”
As Jewish advocate and social media personality Hen Mazzig wrote, however, Israel sent aid “not as PR because, no surprise, most articles talking about the relief efforts leave Israel out. Not for diplomacy either, as Venezuela cut ties with Israel back in 2009.”

Instead, he said that Israel is helping Venezuela because it’s the right thing to do: “We’re there because, no matter how many times you tell yourselves Israelis aren’t human, that’s not reality. We help because we feel a duty to. Because it feels good to bring good into the world.”
In a separate post, he slammed the activists whose hatred of Israel is so great, that they prefer to see Venezuela suffer than accept help from the Jewish state.
“When the devastating earthquakes hit Venezuela, Israel came to their aid,” he wrote. “Now, Free Palestine activists have exposed the delegation’s location, saying they don’t want Israel’s help.”
“Imagine being so hateful that you would rather let your country suffer than receive help,” he declared.
But Venezuelan leadership welcomed the efforts of the Israeli teams.
“We receive and appreciate the arrival of a technical mission from the State of Israel, made up of experts in structural engineering and applied sciences, which joins the efforts to evaluate affected infrastructure following the recent earthquakes in Venezuela, within the framework of international technical cooperation and support for the Venezuelan people,” wrote Yvan Gil, Venezuela’s foreign minister, on X.
A Jewish social media user posted a video of Mexico’s top mole, leader of Mexico’s rescue brigade, the Aztec Moles, thanking Israel and lauding its technological prowess in rescue operations.
Using robotic drones that employ advanced AI tracking capabilities, Israeli teams are mapping out routes through the debris so that moles arriving from Mexico can safely enter. They are also using thermal detection technology to detect signs of life.
A mole is a search-and-rescue expert trained to penetrate narrow, dangerous spaces beneath rubble to extract survivors and bodies.