Zaka Tel Aviv on the Haifa refinery attack

ZAKA Tel-Aviv

This afternoon, an Iranian ballistic missile struck the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, Israel’s largest fuel processing facility, responsible for producing half of the nation’s domestic fuel supply. Power was knocked out across parts of the north as smoke rose over the city. In the same wave of attacks, four Israelis were killed by a Hezbollah rocket strike in Kiryat Shmona. May their memory be a blessing.

Last night, air raid sirens sounded six separate times across northern and central Israel, sending millions of civilians scrambling to shelters in the dark. The barrage came from multiple fronts simultaneously — Iranian ballistic missiles from the east and Hezbollah rockets from the north — stretching Israel’s air defenses and emergency responders to their absolute breaking point.

Zaka Tel-Aviv volunteers are deployed across multiple impact zones. Our teams are working shoulder-to-shoulder with the IDF and Israel Police, navigating active strike areas to treat the wounded and perform the sacred, heartbreaking work of recovering and identifying those who could not be saved. With attacks now targeting critical infrastructure alongside civilian areas, the scenes our volunteers are walking into are more complex and more dangerous than anything we have faced before.