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

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

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

He said he mislaid his mother erstwhile he was a kid astatine nan hands of a murderous terrorist. He saved lives arsenic an service paramedic, but he continues to do it now arsenic a civilian — defiantly choosing to unrecorded successful Israel and activity astatine Tel Aviv's Magen David Adom (MDA) while nether threat and emergencies from multiple-front wars.

He saves lives successful nan "dark" of war. He sees lives go, sometimes aft making difficult 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 boy was his first calved nether nan accent of rocket onslaught and blaring Iron Dome sirens. (Viri Acoca / Photo Provided)

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

But, today, he is sharing a communicative of "light': a stark opposition from nan stories he usually refuses to stock pinch his family to spare them nan horrifying realities of warfare — moreover if they unrecorded those themselves.

Last Thursday, Rosen delivered a patient babe boy into nan world and, successful abrupt threat of a rocket onslaught and blaring sirens, carried that boy distant from nan mother successful nan ambulance arsenic he and nan begetter raced to scope a explosive shelter.

This is his 5th emergency delivery of a newborn arsenic a paramedic. It was his first nether nan threat of a rocket onslaught and blaring sirens.

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

"This is an astonishing point to stock astatine home," Rosen said. "Most of my stories are not for illustration this, astir of our stories I stock are really difficult things for my family to hear. This is why, usually, I'm not sharing pinch my family stories from my work: 'Sorry, I'm not doing it.'

"Car accidents aliases astir nan CPRs aliases astir really difficult situations that I had to woody with."

Just 2 days aft bringing 1 life into nan world, he saw 5 go.

"I had, for illustration past Saturday, 5 cases of decease successful nan shift," he said. "I don't want to get location and show 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 nan 'dark' of warfare and nether nan accent of a rocket interception pinch sirens blaring. (Fox News Original)

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

"She was truthful proud of maine and besides my family and my begetter and my friends and my partner. Of course, this is simply a really bully communicative to show to everyone."

The telephone came astir 6:30 a.m. section Tel Aviv clip connected a Thursday morning: a female was successful labor, getting an assistance connected emergency transportation complete nan telephone arsenic if it was a movie.

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

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

Then came nan 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 nan urgency of a wartime emergency pinch nan delicate, captious first steps of childbirth.

He quickly placed nan newborn connected nan mother’s thorax for skin-to-skin contact, a cardinal measurement for bonding and early development. He had nan begetter trim nan umbilical cord and helped nan mother caregiver nan babe for nan first time.

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"I tried to do thing arsenic adjacent arsenic imaginable to reality for them," he said, wanting to sphere nan intimacy of a normal commencement moreover though they were acold from a infirmary transportation room.

With nan thief of nan begetter and her team, he past moved nan family into nan building’s shelter. There, successful nan mediate of blaring alarms and nan sounds of rocket interceptions overhead, relatives from nan flat building — a grandmother, an aunt and others — came downstairs and saw nan babe for nan first time.

"It was nan first clip they met nan baby, while location were alarms," he said. 

"Adrenaline" and erstwhile service paramedic small heart took over.

"I put nan helmet, I put nan vest and everything, I took nan baby, and we stopped by nan broadside and I ran pinch nan babe to a nationalist shelter," he recalled. "So maine and nan father, we're moving together, I'm taking nan babe pinch me, moving to a shelter and conscionable a random building and location was nary shelter there.

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

"And we're going out. There is still alarms; I cognize that we person for illustration possibly 20 seconds left, going to different building, and past we're getting into a nationalist shelter. There is 50 group location successful nan shelter and they closed nan door. We were still location opinionated successful nan shelter, truthful I gave nan begetter nan baby.

"I didn't want nan thought for nan begetter besides — you cognize successful nan early — to deliberation astir nan business that a alien held his babe while location is simply a rocket attack."

In nan shelter, pinch nan postpartum mother still successful nan ambulance nether nan Iron Dome, nan unmistakable sound of warfare came pinch a shock.

"We besides heard nan interception pinch nan Iron Dome," Rosen said.

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

The aerial was vibrating.

The grateful begetter and mother, identified by MDA arsenic Nikola and Violet, said nan acquisition was frightening but that nan emergency 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 nan warfare communicative retired of praise and thankfulness.

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

In that cramped shelter of astir 50 huddling Israelis, surrounded by strangers and nan threat of falling missiles, nan room collapsed into applause. People congratulated nan begetter and shouted "Mazal tov."

Mother was still successful nan ambulance pinch members of nan MDA team, still astatine consequence postpartum, arsenic nan Iron Dome was busting missiles overhead.

"And aft 10 minutes that we sat there, we went out, and we walked successful nan thoroughfare pinch a baby, 30 minutes old, crossing nan intersection together, going to nan ambulance," Rosen said. "They put a helmet connected her and a vest connected nan mother, and 1 of my teammates stayed pinch her, because she couldn't travel to nan 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 protect nan son; it would amended to spell to find a shelter. And we didn't deliberation astir nan thought that possibly we'll beryllium successful alarms, because we were successful nan situation, we were astatine nan moment, we're pinch nan family, pinch nan delivery, pinch everything, and you can't ideate thing for illustration this — moreover though it's Israel, and now we tin really ideate everything.

"Still, it was really, really, really breathtaking — excitement and happiness – and a bully point because astir of our days correct now are dark."

Despite losing his mother to a murderous violent and surviving nether nan threat 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) emergency teams respond to nan segment of Iranian rocket barrages successful Tel Aviv, Israel connected Friday, June 13, 2025. (Magen David Adom (MDA))

"My mother was murdered successful a terror attack erstwhile I was a kid, erstwhile I was a child, and to take to still beryllium present pinch my family, to unrecorded here: This is our location and to choose, going to a different path, not hate.

"I will prevention lives, and I will do my champion to thief different families going done these situations, and I will do my champion to make judge location are nary different families that will request to suffer from a loss.

"So I deliberation this is nan mentality of Israelis successful general. But still, see, this is 1 of nan only places successful nan world that group are getting rescued by a formation to travel backmost to Israel.

"In a war," he deadpanned.

But, pinch everything happening nether nan accent of war, Rosen kept nan calm, precision and resoluteness of an service paramedic, knowing nan 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 nan astir important: Put nan babe connected nan skin, springiness them nan bond, help her to nurse," he said. "It besides tin thief nan mother a batch erstwhile she nursing nan baby. It's besides helping pinch postpartum bleeding. And a batch of things.

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

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

"I was truthful excited I couldn't slumber for — for illustration nan delivery, it was thing for illustration 17 hours into my shift," he 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, nan adrenaline and excitement person not worn off. And nan babe boy, mother, begetter and MDA paramedic squad unrecorded connected to show an all-timer.