Magen David Adom paramedics and EMTs rushed to the scene of a mortar attack on a farm in Israel’s south this morning and provided emergency medical aid to 10 wounded agricultural workers.
Two of the workers, identified as Thai migrants in their 30s, died from their injuries. Eight others, including one with critical injuries, were treated by MDA at the scene and transported to hospitals for further treatment.
Upon arrival at the scene, Omer Biton, an MDA paramedic, said medics encountered a storage building on fire, where a mortar had struck, and injured people around the structure.
“We immediately began to triage and assess the severity of the injured,” he said. “One was in critical condition, three were in severe condition, and five in moderate to mild condition. We provided medical treatment and began to evacuate them to the hospitals in ambulances and in one of MDA’s Medevac helicopters.”
In other incidents today, a 19-year-old was lightly injured by shrapnel to his upper body in a rocket attack near Ashkelon and transported to Barzilai Medical Center, and a 50-year-old man was treated for shock after a rocket narrowly missed his vehicle and he transported to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva.
Two other Israelis were injured dashing to bomb shelters when Red Alert sirens sounded.
Since the beginning of rocket attacks on May 10, Magen David Adom has treated 324 injured people. Ten were killed from direct hits, by rockets blasts, or from shrapnel, and two suffered critical injuries in falls on their way to bomb shelters and died from their injuries.
MDA teams also provided medical care to 194 people injured in sectarian violence and riots, one of whom was critically injured and later died from his wounds.
