Magen David Adom evacuated four children in two separate calls — a one-year-old boy and girl and a three-year-old boy and girl — to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Wednesday evening after they complained of weakness near the same residential building on Makor Baruch Street where four other children were hospitalized earlier in the day. All four were conscious and suffering from weakness. Hazmat crews remain at the scene searching for a possible hazardous substance.
Magen David Adom received the first call at 17:52 about two children feeling unwell near a residential building on Makor Baruch Street in Jerusalem. A second call at 18:39 reported two more children at the same location. Medics treated and evacuated all four — a one-year-old boy, a one-year-old girl, a three-year-old boy, and a three-year-old girl — to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital suffering from weakness. This brings the total number of pediatric hospitalizations from the same building to eight within roughly two hours. As The Zioneer reported at 19:30, the earlier round included four children hospitalized from the same building after collapsing. Hazardous materials crews remain on-site searching for a possible source of the illness; no cause has been confirmed.
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