The President of Israel directly addresses Magen David Adom teams across the nation.

Lior Eshel, MDA Senior EMT in the Ayalon Region is saving lives on the morning shift today, on an ambulance carrying the picture of his niece Roni, kidnapped and missing in Gaza. Lior, we send you strength, and we pray for her safe return, along with the other 239 kidnapped victims.

I woke up at 6:30 from a red alert siren, I started reading reports and very quickly understood that something here is unusual. I wrote to the head of the volunteers in my district and I asked to go down south to help. I really didn’t manage to get organized and was already on an…

Until 17:00 today, Magen David Adom treated 4 casualties: 31 year old male in moderate condition, a 53 and 32 year old in mild condition with shrapnel injuries, and 1 with anxiety symptoms. Since the beginning of the war, MDA forces have treated thousands of casualties, dead, seriously, moderately and lightly injured, including MDA personnel…