Miraculous Escape: Bengaluru Woman Airlifted Hours Before Hamas Attacked Israel

In what could be considered as a lucky escape, a critically ill Bengaluru woman was airlifted from Tel Aviv from Israel just hours before the Hamas terrorists launched a surprise attack.

According to a report in The Times Of India, the 57-year-old woman was airlifted from Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon. She reached the Karnataka capital along with a city-based doctor and a paramedic.

The jet landed in Bengaluru around 11.30 pm at the Kempegowda Airport after which she was rushed to a hospital, the daily reported citing sources from the airport.

Hours later, Israel came under attack from land, sea, and air.

"The air ambulance flown by two pilots was carrying the woman patient in a stretcher. She was accompanied by a doctor, an assistant and another civilian passenger. It landed at KIA after taking off from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. The plane had made a stop at Abu Dhabi before reaching Bengaluru after an eight-hour flight," the TOI quoted a KIA official as saying.

Airport authorities confirmed that the female patient was safely brought to Bengaluru from Tel Aviv just before the onset of the Hamas assault in the early hours of Saturday, causing the closure of airports and airspaces throughout Israel.

"On the KIA tarmac, the patient was transferred to an ambulance and moved to Manipal Hospitals. She was known to be very critical and had to be moved from Israel to India, but other details about her health condition are unclear," an official stated.

The air ambulance trip to and from Tel Aviv was operated by ICATT (International Critical Care Air Transfer Team), a Bengaluru-based operator, and had arrived in Israel on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Palestinians in the sealed-off Gaza Strip scrambled to find safety on Wednesday, as Israeli strikes demolished entire neighbourhoods, hospitals ran low on supplies and a power blackout was expected within hours, further deepening the misery of a war sparked by a deadly mass incursion of Hamas militants.

The death toll from this war has already crossed 3600 from both sides.