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'I saw fear in their eyes' – rescuer describes Bat Yam scene after strike
Gabriela Pomeroy
BBC Live reporter
I've been speaking to a member of Israel's rescue team, Magen David Adom (MDA), which has been working at the scene where six people died after a missile hit two residential buildings in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.
Rescue paramedic Ori Lazarovich says he arrived at the destroyed buildings at around 03:00 local time (01:00 BST).
While co-ordinating a team of medics and rescue workers in the street, he says he saw about 100 people coming out of the building.
"We started triaging people, while the building was still on fire on one side," he says.
“Some were crying and some were holding their family members, I saw fear in their eyes," Lazarovich tells me. "People came out all grey, covered in soot and ash and debris and suffering from smoke inhalation."
The critically injured were taken out on stretchers by emergency workers and sent to hospitals, he says.





