Worker Dies After Falling Three Stories in Beit Shemesh Construction Accident

A young man, Mohammed Karim Hamdan, from the town of Za'tara east of Bethlehem, died after falling three stories during a work accident in the city of Beit Shemesh, in the Jerusalem area. The worker, in his thirties, was pronounced dead on Friday morning after medical teams performed extensive resuscitation efforts at the scene, according to Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency services.

MDA's emergency center received a report at 8:14 AM about a worker falling from a height at a construction site on Talmud Babli Street in Beit Shemesh. Paramedics and medical teams arrived and began treating the worker, described as being in critical condition. Initially, the worker was reported to have fallen approximately three stories.

Despite advanced and intensive resuscitation efforts, MDA later announced the worker's death. Paramedic Yedidya Fegshal and emergency medical technician Shalom Shisha stated that the worker fell from the construction site into a neighboring yard, landing on grass. They found him unconscious with severe, multiple injuries, and after resuscitation attempts failed, they declared him deceased.

The Beit Shemesh police have opened an investigation into the fatal work accident, which occurred in the Ramat Dalit neighborhood. The worker, identified as a young man in his twenties from the Palestinian territories, sustained injuries from the fall.