Mobile reception had crashed at Mount Meron as families were searching for missing loved ones. “Sadly there are fatalities,” the director of Hatzala’s medical division Avi Marcus said.
Ambulance services arrived at the scene, and began treating dozens of injured revellers, with some patients receiving resuscitation. Six helicopters arrived to evacuate the injured.
סרטון הזוי, דקות ספורות לפני האסון הקשה נראים האנשים מצטופפים במדרגות ונתקלים במחסום אנושי שעוצר אותם. מה גרם לדוחק להתפרץ בבת אחת ולציבור להימחץ? pic.twitter.com/4VBzW5jfNE ישראל כהן (@Israelcohen911) April 29, 2021
“I had just sat down to eat when I heard the screams; We rushed to help, and then we saw the bodies. At the start it was about 10. Now, there’s many more,” Avi, a witness who helped treat the injured told Haaretz.
The Mount Hermon tragedy Thursday, in which at least 45 people were killed during a Lag Ba’Omer celebration in Israel, is an unusual event in modern Jewish history. While large crowds and religious fervor often make for a dangerous combination, the lack of many organized pilgrimages in Judaism means that Jews have rarely been caught in the kind of deadly stampedes that have plagued the Muslim Hajj in Saudi Arabia and Hindu festivals in India. That said, the Mount Meron gathering led to tragedy in one previous incident over a century ago. Here is a brief overview of some religious stampedes in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Austria’s Foreign Ministry also expressed its sympathies, saying it was “shocked and saddened” by the Lag B’Omer tragedy and “our hearts go out to the people of Israel and the families and loved ones of the victims.”
India’s Foreign Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said he was “Deeply saddened at the tragedy in Israel at Mount Meron during the celebrations of Lag Ba’omer. Extend my condolences and wish the injured a speedy recovery.”
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had gathered at Mount Maron for the annual Lag Baomer commemorations of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai when at some point a massive stampede broke out, crushing dozens in the aftermath.
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