As the IDF launches Operation Protective Edge, United Hatzalah has placed their 2,300 volunteers on high alert across the country – including their 400 volunteers based in target zones in Southern Israel. The volunteers are working 24/7 to aid the civilians of Israeli population centers already being targeted by thousands of Hamas missiles, while bracing themselves for a lengthy and bitter battle to save lives throughout Israel from terror attacks, rioting and rockets. With longer range missiles predicted to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the oncoming weeks, the home front is fast becoming the front line.

The organization continues to provide those in need with medical aid within three minutes of an emergency call, by way of their ambucycles and patented LifeCompass GPS technology. As with the Operation Pillar of Defense, United Hatzalah plan to place volunteers in communities which lack medical professionals.

“Our main mission at United Hatzalah is to get to medical emergencies within three minutes all over the country,” says United Hatzalah’s president and founder Eli Beer. “That includes the citizens of the highly targeted south, and victims of terror attacks and riots. The ongoing crisis means that we desperately need to provide our volunteers with protective vests, so that they can continue to save lives without endangering their own.”

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)