11:30PM IL: Reports are coming in of an overturned bus on Route 90, (Beit Ha’Arava, near Yam Halemech & Yerico). Ichud Hatzalah has dozens of volunteers responding from multiple areas. MDA has numerous ambulances dispatched, and the fire department is being requested as well.
UPDATE 11:37PM IL: According to preliminary reports from the scene of an overturned bus at Arava Junction in the Dead Sea area, at least 30 people are injured, with a number trapped in the wreckage. A first report from MDA paramedics on the scene confirm the injuries.
MDA officials have declared a multi casualty incident. Ambulances are dispatched from a number of areas, including Yerushalayim.
UPDATE 11:42PM IL: MDA officials on the scene reporting 30 or so injured, with two appearing to be in serious condition. Because of the location, the response is somewhat delayed.
MDA, Ichud Hatzalah, fire and other officials are responding to the scene. Military choppers alerted and standing by to assist in transport if required.
UPDATE 11:53PM IL: According to Zaki Heller, a spokesman for Magen David Adom, a total of 25 people were injured in the bus accident at Beit Ha’arava Junction north of the Dead Sea. One victim is listed in serious condition, one moderate, and the remainder light.
Israel’s Reshet Bet adds the bus involved is a “private Israeli bus transporting Palestinian families”. Additional details to follow as confirmed information becomes available.
12:02AM IL: FINAL – In his initial statement to police, the driver of the charter bus explained the lights of another vehicle “blinded” him, resulting in the bus driving off the road. It appears a total of 27 people were injured, one seriously, one moderately and the remainder light and light-to-moderate. One assumes the driver is not in serious condition since he is being interviewed by police. Police accident investigators are operating on the scene. Two IDF choppers are standing by to transport injured if required.
Reshet Bet reports the bus is not an Egged bus but a charter transporting “Palestinian families”. At least one of the injured appears to be a child.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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8 Responses
Why are Israeli air force helicopters standing by? Open up the road for the Pals to take them wherever they like for treatment. And why is Hatzalah wasting its time there?
Was it supposed to be a suicide mission?
#1 – Ever heard of kiddush Hashem? And besides, all human life is sacred and we most to our utmost to save anybody and everybody.
Because they are Rachmanim Bnei Rachmanim unlike #1.
if you had a chance to save a nazi from the death penalty would you save him?!
you dont have to have rachamim on murderers.
Oh i was in shaarei tzedek last night and i saw loads of arab people being discharged from the hospital i was wondering what happened – i saw about 15 of them who had bruises and cuts and stitches..didn’t look pretty..but i was more bothered about the queues they caused – everything took hours because of them!!!
p.s. re: the injured child – there was a child there as well and he looked totally fine..
Why?? HMMM let’s see, If the Israeli’s did nothing and stood by how do you think the media would react.The fact that the Israeli’s did help, kept this from becoming an international story. Because Israel doing something good does not sell.