Two workers fall to their death as scaffolding collapses in Givat Ze’ev
Third man moderately injured; supporting structure of 12-story building under construction gave way on ninth floor with builders standing on it; foreman of site arrested

Two construction workers were killed and another moderately injured when part of a scaffolding collapsed on a 12-story building under construction in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev, just north of Jerusalem.
Rescue workers needed a crane to reach one of the men buried under the fallen scaffold on Harakefet Street.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said the two fatalities were men in their thirties.
Another man, 32, was taken to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem with moderate stomach injuries. Three other workers were treated for anxiety, MDA said.
The hospital later said the patient was in stable condition and fully conscious.
Police said in a statement that they arrested the foreman of the site and were questioning two other suspects in connection to the accident.
Walid Amro, a construction worker at the building site, told Channel 13 he was on another part of the scaffolding when the disaster happened.
“I heard workers saying run, [and] I ran away,” he said.
Amro claimed workers had told the site manager that the scaffold was not secure and was shaking but he allegedly shrugged off the warnings.
Speaking to Channel 12, Amro said that the ninth floor collapsed as the three workers were standing on it.
Another worker, identified only as Mahmoud, told the network he was just meters away when the disaster happened.
“We heard a loud noise,” he said. “The whole thing collapsed in one go.”
According to the MDA statement, rescuers found three men under the scaffolding and pulled out the moderately injured man first. Several minutes later rescuers found one of the fatalities.
It took another two hours to extract the third worker, who was dead when rescuers reached him. A crane was needed to lift some of the debris that covered the man, delaying efforts to reach him.
Deaths of construction workers in Israel are a frequent occurrence, largely because of poorly enforced safety codes.
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