Siblings ages 2 and 3 die after being left in car

Magen David Adom paramedics declare two- and three-year-old siblings dead after they were left in a car in the summer heat for “a number of hours.”

The ambulance service received a call to a community in the Al Kasum Regional Council in the Negev and found the two children unconscious on their arrival. Paramedics tried for to revive them for over half an hour, according to MDA.

Raad Abuaga, an MDA paramedic, said, “When I arrived at the site I was taken to the house and there we saw the unconscious children, not breathing and without a heartbeat. They told us they had taken them out of the car after they have been inside for a number of hours.”

In recent years, a rash of similar incidents in Israel alarmed the public, launching debates about possible means of prevention and prompting a hypervigilance that had seemed to save some children from a similar fate.