(22 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Haifa, Israel – 22 September 2024
1. Wide of Israeli soldiers from the Home Front Command entering underground fortified hospital
2. Close of sign reading (Hebrew, English and Arabic) "Sammy Ofer parking & fortified hospital"
3. Various of hospital staff and Home Front Command soldiers bringing in patients
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Alex Tansky, nurse at Rambam medical center:
"We prepared the underground hospital to receive patients in case there is a missile attack above and everything was prepared a long time in advance and we received a warning today that we need to take the patients down because there is a tangible danger of a missile attack on the hospital."
5. Various of hospital staff with patient
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Alex Tansky, nurse at Rambam medical center:
"It’s complicated and logistically complex and we’ve prepared all the little details here because the patients have to come down with their equipment to get their medicine with their medical files with the teams, it’s really complicated but we have been working on it for a long time."
7. Wide of doctors and nurses
8. Wide of nurses moving equipment
9. Wide of staff moving equipment and supplies
10. Wide of beds being taken out by soldiers
11. Wide of hospital staff in high-visibility jackets being briefed
12. Wide exterior of hospital
STORYLINE:
Israel’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that all hospitals in the north would begin moving operations to protected areas or shelters within the medical centers after Hezbollah launched around 150 rockets across a wider and deeper area of northern Israel.
Some of the rockets landed near the city of Haifa.
For the first time, the Rambam Medical center moved patients to its underground ward, a parking lot converted into a state-of-the-art hospital floor, with beds slotted into parking spots.
"We prepared the underground hospital to receive patients in case there is a missile attack above and everything was prepared a long time in advance and we received a warning today that we need to take the patients down because there is a tangible danger of a missile attack on the hospital," said Alex Tansky, a nurse at the hospital.
"It’s really complicated but we have been working on it for a long time," he added.
The back-up ward was created after Israel’s 2006 war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and is meant to serve patients during times of rocket fire.
The sides appeared to be spiraling toward all-out war following months of escalating tensions. The rocket barrage overnight and into Sunday set off air raid sirens. It sent thousands of people scrambling into shelters. The Israeli military said rockets had been fired “toward civilian areas.”
The situation pointed to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets.
AP video shot by Moshe Edri
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