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On the night between Friday and Saturday, a severe earthquake occurred in Morocco. Casablanca and Rabat with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale.
At this point, the number of people killed is at least 1037 people.
Israel is preparing to evacuate Israelis as soon as possible from the disaster that befell the country. 17 Israelis are defined as having lost contact, but it is estimated that they made contact after Shabbat ended.
ZAKA announced that "following the report of over 1,000 dead, and dozens and hundreds of wounded, many of whom are in serious condition. An Israeli delegation of the Home Front Command and ZAKA volunteers is organizing to go out in the coming hours to help and deal with the rescue and locating of casualties."
