Military-style helicopters carrying injured victims from the Ramim Ridge explosion touched down at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa on Monday, delivering critically and seriously wounded patients from the mass-casualty incident in northern Israel. Video footage shows the aircraft landing on the hospital’s coastal helipad as ambulances and medical teams stood ready to transfer the injured into the trauma facility. The airlift followed the detonation of suspected unexploded ordnance during a school field trip that injured at least twelve people, including students and teachers from ORT Ma’alot high school. Israeli Air Force and Magen David Adom helicopters had been scrambled to the remote hillside near Kibbutz Yiftah to evacuate those requiring urgent hospital care. Rambam, northern Israel’s primary trauma center, routinely handles such rapid helicopter arrivals from border-area emergencies. Medical staff moved quickly to stabilize the arriving patients as the full scale of the injuries became clear.

The operation underscored the hospital’s central role in treating casualties from incidents along the northern frontier, whether from leftover munitions, cross-border fire, or other emergencies. Emergency responders had already treated some of the wounded at the scene before the more severe cases were lifted out by air. Families and school officials waited for updates while doctors at Rambam assessed the critical and serious injuries among the group. The swift coordination between ground teams, air crews, and hospital staff reflected the well-practiced response system built for exactly these kinds of sudden events in the Upper Galilee. As investigations continued at the blast site into the unexploded ordnance, the focus at Rambam remained on saving lives and providing intensive care to those airlifted from the ridge. The arrival of the helicopters marked a critical next stage in the emergency response that began hours earlier on the hiking trail.