Volunteer rescuers were flown to the Neve Midbar beach around evening (Monday) following a report of 10 drifters. Many hikers are present at the beach and only after interrogation and counting will it be possible to verify the number of drifters.
The drifters were part of a group of about 300 vacationers.
Some of the drifters have already returned to shore with the help of local lifeguards.
Rescuers are now questioning vacationers to map out the true number of missing persons.
According to the rescue units, a westerly wind is now blowing in the Dead Sea, sweeping the bathers to the depths of the sea.
The High School claims that the main effort at the moment is water scans to rule out the inventions of other boys.
Lifeboats, Photo: Spokeswoman
Matach Binyamin, Deputy Commander Ido Peretz, commander of the incident, stated that:
At the moment, the district's YLM teams, rescue units and a flame unit are deployed in the area.
And we will continue to operate in the field in accordance with developments. "
Matan Murad, commander of the Megillot unit: "The unit's volunteers worked all night to rescue the hikers safely, worked all day, carried a stretcher in the evening, and are now operating in a sea rescue in complex weather conditions.
The unit's volunteers are in good shape and hope to locate and rescue the drifters in good condition and quickly.
We again call on the traveling public to observe the rules of caution and walk according to the instructions of the Nature and Parks Authority. "
"We will continue to operate in the field in accordance with developments."
On rescue boats, Photo: Spokeswoman
The volunteers at the scene of the incident, Photo: will extract scrolls
In an event assisting an entity for a special mission in Judea and Samaria, the ISA's Lehavah unit was jumped with a motorboat, an Israeli police helicopter and a private boat of a volunteer from Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem were launched. An MDA ambulance was already present at the scene.
The sea rescue now comes after the day rescue of a 60-year-old hiker who fell from a height in Wadi Kelt in the afternoon and evacuated via a stretcher, and after a long and difficult night in which three teenage hikers who were mistaken during a hike in the Og River were located and rescued.
In the night rescue, the unit lost the thermal glider that greatly helped shorten the locating times in the Judean Desert crevices.
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