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“I shielded the baby with my body.” That is how Magen David Adom paramedic Elad Pas describes the moment an ambulance birth on a highway in southern Israel coincided with a missile alert.
The newborn had just begun crying when the warning arrived on the team’s phones. A missile had been launched toward the region.
Moments earlier, Pas and his team had been transporting a 23-year-old woman whose contractions were getting closer together. The hospital was still some distance away. It became obvious the baby would not wait that long.
“There was a very high probability the birth would happen immediately,” Pas recalled. The delivery took place inside the ambulance.
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