Rescuers Save Parents and Four Children Trapped by Flash Floods
Rescue volunteers brought two parents and their four children to safety after flash floods trapped the family during an outing in eastern Gush Etzion on October 27, Israel Police said.
Members of the Etzion-Judea Rescue Unit reached the family in remote terrain and helped them out of the affected area. All six were in stable condition and did not require medical treatment, according to the police statement.
The operation was the unit’s third flood rescue that evening in the Judean Desert. Police said no casualties were reported in the rescues carried out by the unit.
Search and rescue teams continued operating in the desert’s flood-affected streambeds.
