Medics handled 3,022 individuals for accidents over Yom Kippur, together with 2,165 individuals who had been taken to the hospital, Magen David Adom paramedics mentioned Thursday night.
The Jewish Day of Atonement started Wednesday night and ended Thursday at sunset. Amongst these injured over the vacation had been 293 individuals who fainted, grew to become dehydrated or in any other case felt unwell in the course of the quick.
Observant Jews mark Yom Kippur by fasting for 25 hours and praying for a lot of the day. Profiting from abandoned roads and highways, secular Israelis have made a convention of biking all through the principally empty streets.
Medics mentioned that they handled 295 individuals who had been damage whereas driving bikes, scooters or skateboards, and one other 23 had been injured in site visitors accidents.
Two had been critically injured, together with a 17-year-old boy who was hit by a automotive in Tel Aviv and a 21-year-old man who was taken to the hospital after his automobile flipped over on Route 444, close to Taybeh.
Hamas fired five rockets toward Ashdod in the course of the begin of the vacation Wednesday night, triggering sirens.
Screenshot from a video displaying the firing of a rocket from Gaza towards Ashdod on October 1, 2025. (Display seize utilized in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Regulation)
Seven individuals had been flippantly injured whereas dashing to a bomb shelter when the sirens went off, however nobody was injured by the barrage itself.
Air defenses intercepted 4 of the rockets headed towards the coastal metropolis, whereas one landed in an open space, the IDF mentioned Wednesday.
There have been no stories of accidents or harm.
Medics additionally transported 149 girls in labor to hospitals to provide beginning, and assisted in delivering three infants over the course of the Jewish quick day.
