Knitted News25.04.22 20:10 24 in Nissan Tishpev
Rescue unit, archive (Photo: Police Spokeswoman)
Tonight (Monday), volunteers from the Megillat Rescue Squadron jumped to the Neve Midbar beach following a report of 10 drifters. Many hikers are present at the beach and only after interrogation and counting will it be possible to verify the number of drifters.
(Photo: Press Scrolls)
The event is being assisted by the Judea and Samaria Police, and the Lehavah unit of the IDF was jumped with a motorboat that is expected to arrive in the next hour. An Israeli police helicopter and a private boat of a volunteer from Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem were also launched. The MDA ATN is already present at the scene.
In the Dead Sea, a westerly wind is blowing, sweeping the bathers to the depths of the sea. The rescue comes after the rescue of a 60-year-old hiker who fell from a height in Wadi Kelt and was evacuated using a stretcher, and after a long and difficult night in which 3 teenage hikers were located and rescued during a hike in the Og River. In the night rescue, the unit lost the thermal glider that greatly helped shorten the locating times in the Judean Desert crevices.
Matan Murad, commander will rescue scrolls: “The unit’s volunteers worked all night to rescue the hikers safely, worked all day, dragged a stretcher in the evening, and now operate in sea rescue in complex weather conditions. The unit’s volunteers are in good shape and hope to locate “We again call on the traveling public to observe the rules of caution and walk according to the instructions of the Nature and Parks Authority.”
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