Israeli aid group NATAN sends medical team to flood-hit Mozambique

NATAN Worldwide Disaster Relief, an Israel-based volunteer medical aid organisation, announced in mid-February 2026 that it had sent an emergency team to Mozambique after heavy rains and floods swept through the country's southern and central provinces. Citing official figures, the group said more than 800,000 people had been affected and over 100,000 forced from their homes. United Nations planning documents for the first half of 2026 put the number of displaced even higher, at several hundred thousand, and reported thousands of kilometres of damaged roads.

The Israeli delegation, made up of doctors, nurses, social workers and support staff, set up mobile clinics in remote villages that were hard to reach after roads and health facilities were washed out, and provided care in camps for displaced families. Alongside medical treatment, the team offered psychosocial support to people who had lost homes and livelihoods.

Mozambique's state news agency AIM reported on 4 March that the mission had ended after two weeks in the worst-hit areas of the south. According to the report, which drew on a statement from NATAN and the Israeli Embassy in Luanda, the team gave direct medical care to more than 500 women and children. In one episode described by the agency, an Israeli midwife working at an open-air clinic helped deliver a healthy baby together with local health workers.

NATAN was founded in Israel in 2006 and sends volunteer medical and relief teams to disaster and crisis zones around the world. It has worked in Mozambique before, deploying a team after Cyclone Idai devastated the country in 2019.