Israeli paramedic delivers baby, rushes it to bomb shelter during Iran attack

Dr. Gal Rosen is an Israeli paramedic who has saved lives nether the menace of rocket attacks.

Racing from exigency to emergency, bosom pounding, but calm nether occurrence — "don't think, conscionable act."

He said helium mislaid his parent erstwhile helium was a kid astatine the hands of a murderous terrorist. He saved lives arsenic an service paramedic, but helium continues to bash it present arsenic a civilian — defiantly choosing to unrecorded successful Israel and enactment astatine Tel Aviv's Magen David Adom (MDA) portion nether menace and emergencies from multiple-front wars.

He saves lives successful the "dark" of war. He sees lives go, sometimes aft making hard split-second decisions.

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Dr. Gal Rosen, a Tel Aviv paramedic, has delivered 5 babies successful his time, but Nikola's babe lad was his archetypal calved nether the accent of rocket onslaught and blaring Iron Dome sirens. (Viri Acoca / Photo Provided)

"We request to take sometimes," helium says, speaking to Fox News Digital during a uncommon infinitesimal disconnected betwixt emergencies. "And this is hard."

But, today, helium is sharing a communicative of "light': a stark opposition from the stories helium usually refuses to stock with his household to spare them the horrifying realities of warfare — adjacent if they unrecorded those themselves.

Last Thursday, Rosen delivered a steadfast babe lad into the satellite and, successful abrupt menace of a rocket onslaught and blaring sirens, carried that lad distant from the parent successful the ambulance arsenic helium and the begetter raced to scope a weaponry shelter.

This is his 5th exigency transportation of a newborn arsenic a paramedic. It was his archetypal nether the menace of a rocket onslaught and blaring sirens.

"It was truthful surrealistic situation, successful my opinion, ne'er happened to me, thing similar this," helium said, capable to grin astir the gravity of it each 1 week later, aft yet uncovering slumber and clip to reflect.

"This is an astonishing happening to stock astatine home," Rosen said. "Most of my stories are not similar this, astir of our stories I stock are truly hard things for my household to hear. This is why, usually, I'm not sharing with my household stories from my work: 'Sorry, I'm not doing it.'

"Car accidents oregon astir the CPRs oregon astir truly hard situations that I had to woody with."

Just 2 days aft bringing 1 beingness into the world, helium saw 5 go.

"I had, similar past Saturday, 5 cases of decease successful the shift," helium said. "I don't privation to get location and archer astir it successful my family, right? But this communicative is amazing.

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MDA Dr. Gal Rosen smiles, telling his singular communicative of 'light' arsenic a paramedic delivering a newborn babe nether the 'dark' of warfare and nether the accent of a rocket interception with sirens blaring. (Fox News Original)

"I went to my grandma," helium continued, "and said, 'You person to perceive it.'

"She was truthful arrogant of maine and besides my household and my begetter and my friends and my partner. Of course, this is simply a truly bully communicative to archer to everyone."

The telephone came astir 6:30 a.m. section Tel Aviv clip connected a Thursday morning: a pistillate was successful labor, getting an assistance connected exigency transportation implicit the telephone arsenic if it was a movie.

But this was existent life, a caller life, and war.

By the clip the MDA paramedic squad arrived, the babe was inactive wrong and the hubby was helping his woman done the last moments of delivery. Dr. Rosen stepped successful for the past fewer minutes and helped safely present the boy.

Then came the alert.

Within moments, a informing sounded that a rocket onslaught connected Tel Aviv was expected successful astir 10 minutes. The paramedic abruptly had to equilibrium the urgency of a wartime exigency with the delicate, captious archetypal steps of childbirth.

He rapidly placed the newborn connected the mother’s thorax for skin-to-skin contact, a cardinal measurement for bonding and aboriginal development. He had the begetter chopped the umbilical cord and helped the parent caregiver the babe for the archetypal time.

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"I tried to bash thing arsenic adjacent arsenic imaginable to world for them," helium said, wanting to sphere the intimacy of a mean commencement adjacent though they were acold from a infirmary transportation room.

With the assistance of the begetter and her team, helium past moved the household into the building’s shelter. There, successful the mediate of blaring alarms and the sounds of rocket interceptions overhead, relatives from the flat gathering — a grandmother, an aunt and others — came downstairs and saw the babe for the archetypal time.

"It was the archetypal clip they met the baby, portion determination were alarms," helium said. 

"Adrenaline" and erstwhile service paramedic instinct took over.

"I enactment the helmet, I enactment the vest and everything, I took the baby, and we stopped by the broadside and I ran with the babe to a nationalist shelter," helium recalled. "So maine and the father, we're moving together, I'm taking the babe with me, moving to a structure and conscionable a random gathering and determination was nary structure there.

"'OK, this is not good.' We request to spell out.

"And we're going out. There is inactive alarms; I cognize that we person similar possibly 20 seconds left, going to different building, and past we're getting into a nationalist shelter. There is 50 radical determination successful the structure and they closed the door. We were inactive determination lasting successful the shelter, truthful I gave the begetter the baby.

"I didn't privation the thought for the begetter besides — you cognize successful the aboriginal — to deliberation astir the concern that a alien held his babe portion determination is simply a rocket attack."

In the shelter, with the postpartum parent inactive successful the ambulance nether the Iron Dome, the unmistakable dependable of warfare came with a shock.

"We besides heard the interception with the Iron Dome," Rosen said.

The sound, helium said, was intolerable to ignore: "a boom," followed by a daze question you could feel.

The aerial was vibrating.

The grateful begetter and mother, identified by MDA arsenic Nikola and Violet, said the acquisition was frightening but that the exigency squad helped support them calm.

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"It wasn’t a elemental experience," they wrote successful a associated statement, preferring to support privateness but permitting Dr. Rosen to stock the warfare communicative retired of praise and thankfulness.

"The labour started astatine home, and conscionable minutes aft the MDA squad delivered the baby, the siren caught us, and we went down to a shelter. The squad functioned amazingly, calmed us, and treated america successful the champion imaginable way. This isn’t the perfect experience, but we’re blessed everything ended safely, and we’re grateful to the squad who helped america truthful much."

In that cramped structure of astir 50 huddling Israelis, surrounded by strangers and the menace of falling missiles, the country broke into applause. People congratulated the begetter and shouted "Mazal tov."

Mother was inactive successful the ambulance with members of the MDA team, inactive astatine hazard postpartum, arsenic the Iron Dome was busting missiles overhead.

"And aft 10 minutes that we sat there, we went out, and we walked successful the thoroughfare with a baby, 30 minutes old, crossing the intersection together, going to the ambulance," Rosen said. "They enactment a helmet connected her and a vest connected the mother, and 1 of my teammates stayed with her, due to the fact that she couldn't travel to the shelter. It was excessively overmuch time, excessively risky for her.

"And, you know, successful these moments, I didn't deliberation truthful much. So I conscionable act.

"I realized that it would beryllium amended to support the son; it would amended to spell to find a shelter. And we didn't deliberation astir the thought that possibly we'll beryllium successful alarms, due to the fact that we were successful the situation, we were astatine the moment, we're with the family, with the delivery, with everything, and you can't ideate thing similar this — adjacent though it's Israel, and present we tin really ideate everything.

"Still, it was really, really, truly breathtaking — excitement and happiness – and a bully happening due to the fact that astir of our days close present are dark."

Despite losing his parent to a murderous violent and surviving nether the menace of multiple-front wars and shrieking Iron Dome sirens and rocket attacks, Rosen would take nary different life.

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Magen David Adom (MDA) exigency teams respond to the country of Iranian rocket barrages successful Tel Aviv, Israel connected Friday, June 13, 2025. (Magen David Adom (MDA))

"My parent was murdered successful a panic onslaught erstwhile I was a kid, erstwhile I was a child, and to take to inactive beryllium present with my family, to unrecorded here: This is our location and to choose, going to a antithetic path, not hate.

"I volition prevention lives, and I volition bash my champion to assistance different families going done these situations, and I volition bash my champion to marque definite determination are nary different families that volition request to endure from a loss.

"So I deliberation this is the mentality of Israelis successful general. But still, see, this is 1 of the lone places successful the satellite that radical are getting rescued by a formation to travel backmost to Israel.

"In a war," helium deadpanned.

But, with everything happening nether the accent of war, Rosen kept the calm, precision and resoluteness of an service paramedic, knowing the champion medicine for a babe calved nether accent is skin-to-skin and mother's milk.

"I learned successful med school, I learned these 2 things are the astir important: Put the babe connected the skin, springiness them the bond, assistance her to nurse," helium said. "It besides tin assistance the parent a batch erstwhile she nursing the baby. It's besides helping with postpartum bleeding. And a batch of things.

"So this situation, it's hard to bash erstwhile we are successful this rocket attack."

But each is good that ended good and — successful the lawsuit of Nikola and Violet's newborn — began arsenic good arsenic could beryllium nether the circumstances.

"I was truthful excited I couldn't slumber for — similar the delivery, it was thing similar 17 hours into my shift," helium recalled. "So I worked 16 hours. It was aft 17 hours shift.

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"Now and aft 17 hours shift, I went backmost home, I tried to sleep, I couldn't sleep, and past I had to spell to different shift. So I was awake for astatine slightest 24 hours."

One week later, the adrenaline and excitement person not worn off. And the babe boy, mother, begetter and MDA paramedic squad unrecorded connected to archer an all-timer.