Remembering: LAG BAOMER HORROR IN MERON

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 9:46 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

I’m so happy! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been worried and anxiously waiting to hear the good news. Besuros Tovos.

Thanx. I'm sitting and crying I can't get to myself. This is such an enormous tragedy, hashem we need moshiach.
People still haven't heard from their family, it's heartbreaking.

↑ avrahamama

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 9:47 pm

Hashem please help us all.

Help the families who need a nechama.
Help the injured who need a refua
And help all of us who are unable to do anything but daven. Help us daven!

↑ IsraeliSoul ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 9:52 pm

Hashem help the families who need a nechama. The injured who need a refuah. And help all of us who are unable to do anything but daven. I can say this a billion times. I’m bawling my eyes out

WhatFor

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:08 pm

Unbelievably heartbreaking. Just unfathomable. Thanks to all for warning about posting on the links - not clicking. To anyone considering sharing those, please also consider that there's probably family that hasn't yet found out, and that really shouldn't be the way. Don't even want to think about this.

↑ Java ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:15 pm

WhatFor wrote:

For anyone who follows PL&C, Danielle asked that people should please not share the pictures and videos

↑ momX4 ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:16 pm

Trying to upload an image. Someone warned of this years ago

Last edited by momX4 on Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:20 pm; edited 3 times in total

Writergirl ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:27 pm

blessedflower wrote:

There are kids among the casualties Crying

Hashem yerachem. How do you know about this?

↑ doodlesmom ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:32 pm

blessedflower wrote:

There are kids among the casualties Crying

I’ve also read that it’s mostly bochurim and kids. Sad

. Hashem yishmor.

↑ dena613 ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:32 pm

momX4 wrote:

Trying to upload an image. Someone warned of this years ago

My husband said, why didn't they learn from rav wosner's levaya? (rL 2 trampled to death Sad

)

justforfun87

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:33 pm

I just feel so disappointed/confused about what Gd wants from us. First Corona now this. I'm so so sick. I wish I didn't click on those videos.

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:35 pm

doodlesmom wrote:

I’ve also read that it’s mostly bochurim and kids. Sad

. Hashem yishmor.

Hashem yerechiem!

DrMom ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 10:54 pm

https://www.jpost.com/israel-n.....66808

This report says that most of the casualties were from the Toldot Aharon sect.

And yes, there were children among the casualties.

↑ DrMom ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 11:07 pm

octopus wrote:

Why would the police put up a barricade and cause worse overcrowding?

Maybe because there were 10X as many people there than restrictions allow and they were worried about not being able to control an unruly mob which might be hostile to police presence.

Miri1 ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 11:13 pm

The Jerusalem Post article is absolutely inappropriate at a time like this.
This is a national tragedy, and the article completely "othered" the group that is suffering.
A step or two away from blaming the victims in my oppinion.

(edited because I didn't mean to quote the poster above - I'm directing my dismay at the news site and it's choice of coverage)

↑ simcha4 ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 11:19 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

CHASDEI HAHSEM!
MY BROTHER JUST CALLED HE WAS SLEEPING IN TZEFAS THE ENTIRE TIME!!! HE JUST WOKE UP AND HEARD WHAT HAPPENED!! BH BH CHASDEI HASHEM!

BARUCH HASHEM!!! I'm SO happy for you!!! What a relief!
I was going to try and help u out and ask you your brother's name and ask my husband who is now still in Meron - he's an EMT and staff member of Zaka, so he's working hard on both fronts - nebbach with the injured and lhbd'l the niftarim, but my husband told me he isn't allowed to give out any information.

May we share only simchas and besuros tovos, be'h.

↑ DrMom ↓

Thu, Apr 29 2021, 11:26 pm

Miri1 wrote:

I don't disagree. I just posted because many people here are worried about friends and family who attended the event.

I assumed that there are very few Toldot Aharon women here, so maybe it would calm people down once they realized that the probability of their husbands (chas v'shalom) being among the niftar are lower than they might have initially thought.