6 Dead in the Terror Attack in Tel-Aviv
6 dead, 6 seriously injured, 4 moderately injured, and 2 lightly injured in a shooting and stabbing attack at several sites on Jerusalem Boulevard in Tel Aviv; the terrorists were neutralized
This evening, at 19:01, a report was received at MDA's 101 dispatch center in the Dan region of casualties from a shooting attack on Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa and the light rail. Large numbers of Magen David Adom teams, including ambulances, mobile intensive care units, and MDA EMTs on medicycles, were immediately dispatched to the scene to provide medical assistance and evacuate the injured to hospitals, while alarms began sounding for rocket fire across the country.
MDA paramedics fought to save the lives of 6 individuals, but after resuscitation efforts, they had to pronounce them dead.
MDA EMTs and Paramedics provided medical treatment and evacuated 12 injured victims to Ichilov, Wolfson, and Sheba-Tel Hashomer hospitals, including: 6 seriously injured, 4 moderately injured, and 2 lightly injured.
During the attack, Magen David Adom’s blood services provided approximately 150 units of blood and blood components to the hospitals. MDA calls on the public to stay updated on the MDA website and to come donate blood tomorrow and in the coming days: https://www.mdais.org/blood-donation .
Senior EMT from MDA’s motorcycle unit, Yousef Kourdi:
“When I arrived at the scene, gunfire was still active. I noticed several victims near the train tracks suffering from gunshot wounds. I immediately began providing medical treatment, and at the same time, passersby pointed out additional victims at a nearby kiosk.
I instructed them on how to stop the bleeding until I could reach them. After finishing with the first victims, I continued to another site at a synagogue a few hundred meters away, where I provided medical assistance to additional injured individuals.”
Senior EMT from MDA’s medicycle unit, Israel Rost, who treated victims at the commercial center on Aza Street:
“I arrived on my medicycle at the commercial center near Aza Street, where I treated 3 victims who were in a synagogue, in a butcher shop, and on the street, suffering from stab wounds. 2 of them were in serious condition and one was moderately injured, and they were evacuated by MDA’s mobile intensive care units to the hospital.”
MDA paramedics, Omri Gorga and Noam Eliyof, recounted:
“Immediately upon receiving the report of the severe attack occurring at multiple sites, we quickly made our way to the location. When we arrived, we saw a train car that, according to eyewitnesses, had been hit by gunfire during its journey along Jerusalem Boulevard and continued travelling until it stopped on Makhrozet Street. Inside and around it were the injured.
Unfortunately, four of them were found unconscious and without signs of life, and after medical examinations, we had to pronounce them dead at the scene. For the additional injured, who were affected with varying degrees of severity, we provided first aid at the scene and transported them to hospitals while alarms for rocket fire were sounding around us in the Dan region and throughout the country.”
