Magen David Adom reported at 17:52 and 18:39 that two children, then two more children, fell ill near a residential building on Makor Baruch Street in the same Jerusalem neighborhood where four children were hospitalized earlier. Paramedics evacuated four children — a one-year-old boy and girl, and a three-year-old boy and girl — suffering from weakness to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
A second wave of child hospitalizations has struck the same residential block in Jerusalem's Makor Baruch neighborhood, less than an hour after the initial incident. MDA received reports at 17:52 of two children feeling ill near a building; at 18:39, two more children reported feeling unwell at the same location. Paramedics evacuated four children: a baby boy and a baby girl each about one year old, and a three-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, all suffering from weakness. As The Zioneer reported at 19:27 Jerusalem, four children collapsed and were hospitalized earlier in the same area in a suspected hazardous-material exposure, with Fire and Rescue hazmat crews still testing at the scene. It is not yet clear whether the new cases share the same cause. The hospital has not released further details on the children's conditions.
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