Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Tuesday, July 12, 2022

6 hurt, including boy in critical condition, in series of near-drowning incidents

12 July 2022, 9:03 pm Edit

Six Israelis have nearly drowned this evening in four separate incidents.

A five-year-old boy is in critical condition after nearly drowning at the Kibbutzim Stream near Beit She’an, and has been taken to HaEmek Medical Center.

A teenage girl and two young boys are in serious condition and have been taken from Delila Beach in Ashkelon to Barzilai Medical Center.

A 21-year-old man is in moderate condition after swimming in an unauthorized beach in Haifa. He has been taken to the city’s Rambam Medical Center.

And in a pool in Tel Aviv, medics are attempting to resuscitate a woman in her 20s taken out of the water unconscious.