Police searching for missing person off Jaffa shore after drowning incident

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16 August 2025, 9:53 pm

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Paramedics provide first aid to a person injured by a boat propeller off the coast of Jaffa on August 16, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Police are still searching for a missing person off the coast of Jaffa, law enforcement officials say, after a boat propeller injured several people in the water and killed two.

The two victims, both 25 years old, were dragged out of the water at Aliyah Beach by police and pronounced dead after paramedics failed to resuscitate them on the spot.

Police rescued two others alive, including a 13-year-old in serious condition and a 19-year-old in moderate condition. Both were taken to a nearby hospital.

Marine police forces assisted by a helicopter are operating in and around the area to locate the missing individual, police say.