Fire in Bnei Brak: Young Haredi shot and seriously injured

At the entrance to Bnei Brak, on Avraham ben David Street corner Hashomer, a young man of about 24, known to the police from crime, particularly drug abuse – was shot and injured, apparently due to power struggles between rival criminal gangs.

Drives of Ichud Hatzala and Gush Dan Hatzala, gave him primary health care, and he was taken in a critical condition by MDA ambulance to Tel Hashomer Hospital.

According to the report from the trauma ward in hospital, where he is sedated and on a respirator, one bullet penetrated his chest and out the other side, while another bullet remained inside him.

P. who was passing by in a vehicle, tells Behadrey Haredim: "I heard three or four shots, and looked toward the source of noise, where I noticed a young man with a white hoodie who collapsed." Other citizens said they had seen a white colored vehicle which fled from the scene quickly. "It would seem he stepped out of a car and was then shot," said P.

Tel Aviv police said that shots were heard on Hashomer Street near the Coca Cola intersection. An initial investigation shows that a man was shot by two suspects who fled in a vehicle.

A number of suspects were detained.



Commander Shimon Lavi, commander of the Israel Police in Dan District said, "It was reported of four shots which were fired towards Hashomer Street from Highway 4. Teams of police and paramedics which arrived at the place noticed a man in his twenties, lying on the floor with a number of bullets in his body. Initial examination shows that this was probably shooting from a passing vehicle."


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The young man who was shot is a target of investigators of the Dan District investigators, 24 years old, a resident of the city known to the police for crimes of violence, threats, property and drugs, a year ago he was stabbed on Friday night on Hashomer Street in Bnei Brak, and was seriously wounded.

Yoni Martin, a volunteer of Ichud Hatzala who treated him, tells Behadrey Haredim that the Ichud Hatzala call center received a call about shots fired at the exit of Bnei Brak towards 'Hello Teiman' restaurant. "We came across a car that was standing at the edge of the road, and inside a man wearing a yarmulke in his 20s, who was shot in the upper body. Following initial assisting and life saving treatment on the scene, he was taken to hospital."

MDA paramedic and Hatzala Gush Dan Meir Zargarian who lives on an adjacent street, immediately set out to the address. "I saw a man of about 25 with a gunshot wound in his chest, I gave him life-saving primary care together with other volunteers, and took him in an MDA ambulance to the trauma unit at Tel Hashomer. Following primary care he was transferred to the operating room in a critical condition." The hospital staff and doctors praised the speed with which the wounded reached the trauma room, leaving a chance to save his life.

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