On the night of the Iranian attack on Israel thousands of missiles were launched towards the country, most of them were intercepted but one of them managed to land, bringing a severe injury to a 10 year old girl, in a Bedouin village near Arad
MDA teams who received the call proceeded rapidly to the location of the scene while missiles were flying over their heads. The manager of The First Responders in Arad, senior EMT Israel Katz, tells:
“During the night, while I was on the night shift as an ambulance driver together with the EMT Doctor Zihad Abu Arar, we got prepared operationally and mentally for the expected missile attack. When the sirens began in the beginning of the night, we immediately wore our safety gear and remained alert to the radio waiting for the implications of the event. Within minutes from the first sirens dozens of bystanders and families from the Bedouin area arrived to the MDA station, and requested to stay in the shelter in the station since they don’t have one in their area.
At the same time, and when Israel understood the magnitude of the attack, we were updated that a reinforcement group of ten ambulances from the whole country and Jerusalem was on its way to us, and we began preparing the station for their arrival. While we are busy taking care of the families that had arrived and calming them, and managing the fleet of ambulances that had arrived, we received a report of a direct hit as a result of the missile shootings.
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