On Thursday morning, Magen David Adom’s (MDA) emergency hotline received a call regarding a woman who had gone into labor at her home in Tel Aviv.
An EMT at the dispatch center, Aharon Cohen, provided telephone instructions to the husband on how to assist with the delivery, while an MDA Mobile Intensive Care Unit was dispatched to the scene.
The team, led by MDA paramedic Dr. Gal Rosen, together with EMTs Vladislav Priadko and Yuval Peleg, arrived quickly and continued the delivery on site. Within just a few minutes, a healthy baby was born at home – turning a moment of concern into one of great joy.
However, just minutes after the birth, red alert sirens were heard across central Israel, signaling an incoming missile. The team, along with the parents and the newborn baby, were forced to quickly evacuate to a shelter, while MDA paramedic Gal Rosen ran with the minutes-old newborn in his arms.
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