During the night between Friday, 13 June and Saturday 14 June 2025, an alleged Iranian missile struck a Magen David Adom (MDA) Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) operating in the Gush Dan area of Tel Aviv, and three female crew members were injured.

The ambulance, marked and equipped for emergency medical response, was reportedly responding to an earlier impact when it was hit by fragments from a nearby explosion.

The spokesperson for the MDA tweeted personally from the official verified X (Twitter) account of the group at 23:01 UTC on 13 June 2025, “Following the recent Red Alert sirens in the Dan region, an MDA Mobile Intensive Care Unit was hit by shrapnel in the Tel Aviv area. Two crew members, who were wearing protective gear, sustained minor injuries from glass shards. They were treated on scene.”

Photos taken by witnesses and journalists shortly after the explosion showed a badly damaged ambulance with broken windshields and embedded bits of metal, characteristic of secondary shrapnel impacts from a missile intercept or explosion at ground level.

The Jerusalem Post reported that “two female medics were injured after their vehicle was hit by a shrapnel attack,” confirming that both were slightly wounded and treated onsite without being evacuated to the hospital. The report also placed the event in the context of a series of explosions around the Gush Dan area when Iranian missiles penetrated the air-defense umbrella of Israel early in the afternoon. As the article reported, emergency teams were simultaneously dealing with a series of hits inside Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, and several casualties of a serious and light nature were noted.

Another Israel Hayom report also confirmed the strike, writing that “At 1:51 a.m., a Magen David Adom ambulance was hit by shrapnel in Gush Dan. The two female crew members, protected at the time, sustained minor glass-related injuries and were treated on-site.”

Another witness, @neontaster on Twitter, also tweeted: “Two female paramedics lightly injured after missile fragments hit an ambulance in Tel Aviv.”

Visual media released by Israeli media revealed civil defense rescuers and MDA staff conducting rescue efforts inside central Tel Aviv during red alert conditions when Iron Dome and Arrow interceptors were fired to shoot down incoming missiles over the city.

The injuries included small cuts and shock from shards of broken glass and flying debris. Both medics were also wearing protective vests and helmets by order of the Home Front Command, which quite likely prevented greater harm.

In a report published on June 22nd, reported that on the first days of Operation Rising Lion during the night between Friday and Saturday (June 13th and 14th), three members of a Mobile Intensive Care Unit team – paramedic Nitzan Oren, EMT Irit Naor, and senior EMT Eti Cohen – were responding to a routine call in the Dan region when they received a missile alert because rockets had been launched by Iran so they pulled over to the side of the road, “moved away from the vehicle, laid on the ground, covered their heads with their hands”. A rocket which fell a few hundred meters away from them severely damaged the ambulance, rendering it unusable, and the three MDA volunteers were lightly injured and taken to the hospital for treatment.

Where sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the attack to Iran.