Overexcited tourists, Arab cousins come a-calling, or probe to gauge IDF response? Regardless, they’re lucky that they didn’t all become a lumpy mist spread over square yards of minefield.
[IsraelTimes] Man dies from apparent heatstroke while traversing closed military zone in seeming effort to enter Israel illegally from JordanA man died Sunday after being found unconscious in a closed military zone near the Dead Sea, as emergency personnel rescued several people he was with.
There was no immediate word from authorities on what the man, a foreign national, and the five others were doing in the area, but they appeared to have crossed illegally into Israel from Jordan.
Two members of the group were identified as Israelis while the rest were noncitizens.
According to police, the rescuers were sent to the area after the force received a report that people were in a minefield. After first responders extracted the five from the closed military zone, they found the unconscious man while searching the area and pronounced his death at the scene.
No cause of death was given but it appeared be heatstroke, with medics saying the others were suffering from heat exhaustion. Their conditions ranged from light to moderate.
Soldiers, including the military’s elite 669 helicopter-borne rescue unit, assisted in the rescue.
Two arrested on trafficking suspicions after Georgian dies near Dead Sea
Question answered — it’s none of the options I thought of.
[IsraelTimes] Two people have reportedly been arrested in connection with a foreign national found dead in the Dead Sea region, suspected to be a victim of human trafficking.The man, a Georgian national who is thought to have died of heat stroke, was found along with five others in a closed military zone in the region early Sunday and given medical attention.
The five included two Israelis from Bat Yam, who are being held on suspicion of smuggling the group of foreigners, two Georgians and two Sri Lankans, into Israel.
One of the pair of Israelis was rescued in serious medical distress, according to the Haaretz news site, while the others were listed as having only light injuries.