"Come quickly, the whole building is dismantled": MDA published tonight (Thursday) the recordings of the first calls to the MDA call center that reported the direct and fatal hit to a residential building in the heart of Rehovot, in which the first fatality of the " Shield and Arrow " operation was registered. Listen to the conversations:
Commander of the Home Front Command in Rehovot: "The shelter was not in use and became a warehouse"
The calls to the MDA hotline after the direct hit in Rehovot
MDA medics Yedidia Hachmon and Tomer Peshko who arrived at the scene said: "When we arrived at the street we saw a lot of destruction in the building, they immediately went inside and began to search the apartments, in an apartment on the third floor we found an unconscious person with a very severe multi-systemic injury and we had no choice but to determine his death.
"In another apartment in the apartment, a 74-year-old man was found whose leg was trapped under the rubble. He was rescued by the fire brigade and transported on a stretcher to the MDA ambulance, which evacuated him for further treatment at the hospital in moderate condition. Additional large MDA forces who arrived at the scene provided medical treatment to 3 Other victims are in moderate condition and the victim is in light condition."
Operation Shield and Arrow: one dead and ten injured following a direct hit by a rocket in Rehovot
As mentioned, "Operation Shield and Arrow" recorded a sad achievement this evening with the first Israeli death since the operation began three days ago. During heavy barrages into the Shefala area, a rocket directly hit a residential building in Rehovot, one person was killed and ten others were injured to varying degrees.
The commander of the Home Front Command, Major General Rafi Milo, arrived at the scene of the Rechthammer strike: "The task is to make sure that there are no more trapped. It is important to learn from this incident that the Iron Dome provides very good protection, but not maximum. The complement to the Iron Dome's protection is the behavior of the citizens. The shelter was not in active use and became a warehouse, this shows how important it is to follow the directives of the Home Front Command," he emphasized.
