20 injured in collapse of Tel Aviv construction site

At least five people remain unaccounted for after a residential building collapsed today in Tel Aviv, police said.

Multiple people are feared dead after a building collapsed when a crane crashed into it earlier today.

Two others were rescued Monday from the underground structure, which stands on the corner of Habarzel Street and Nehoshet Street in northern Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hahayal neighborhood. The military’s Home Front Command sent about 150 members of its special search-and-rescue team to the scene.

The police are under a gag order from discussing the disaster but announced the arrest of one unidentified person.

A Ukrainian citizen was killed as a result of the parking garage collapse in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mr Odeh highlighted the plight of construction workers, many of them Palestinian, who often work in unsafe conditions.

Israeli TV broadcast footage showing a large, crater-like hole in the ground, and twisted support beams as rescue teams, accompanied by search dogs, dug through the rubble. There weren’t any other people.

“They had lots of luck”, Listenberg said.

Some 50,000 Palestinians have permits to work in Israel, and many others are entering the country without papers. A spokesperson for the fire and rescue service told Ynet that people were buried in the sand at the building site.

Hundreds of firefighters, soldiers, police officers, and medical personnel have been struggling to retrieve survivors after the parking garage collapsed at midday Monday, injuring at least 23 construction workers.

The Israel-based Africa Israel firm won the tender for the project, the Tel Aviv mayor’s office said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site late Monday night, eschewing the Federation Internationale de Football Association 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match between Israel and Italy being held in Jerusalem.

Between 2000 and 2015, 480 people were killed in construction accidents, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in May.

The economy ministry said in response that it would focus on enforcing construction industry regulations.