NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! JERUSALEM – The Israeli military’s growing number of battlefield life-saving measures have emerged during the Iranian regime-backed multi-front war against the Jewish state, and those new technologies are also helping the U.S. Fox News Digital was briefed on the latest insights and data on Israel’s success rate in saving soldiers’ lives from a senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) medical specialist in battlefield medicine. The year 2023, following the jihadist organization’s invasion of Israel on October 7, introduced cutting-edge medical tactics to the battlefield. THE US-ISRAEL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE – PARTNERSHIP, NOT CHARITY IDF troops carry a wounded soldier from a burning building in Gaza. (IDF)Hamas brutally murdered more than 1,200 people in southern Israel, including more than forty Americans, and kidnapped 251 people. An IDF spokesperson outlined the new developments: “The IDF Medical Corps adapted its operational capabilities during the war, including casualty evacuation, innovative medical technologies, and providing treatment under fire in challenging terrain.” IDF medical specialist told Fox News Digital that during “the Second Lebanon War [in 2006 against the Lebanese-based terrorist group Hezbollah] It took between 15 and 20 minutes for advanced life support to reach the victim. Now advanced life support can reach a victim immediately or within 4 minutes.” IDF troops evacuate a wounded soldier from Gaza during intense fighting with Hamas terrorists. (IDF) Placing “medical personnel on the battlefield, including a doctor in each company, allows the IDF to make critical decisions early during the care process, the IDF medical specialist said. The use of helicopters to fly seriously injured soldiers to medical facilities, as seen in the video provided to Fox News Digital, plays a critical role in preventing deaths. The second advance is, according to the IDF medical specialist, “rapid evacuation”, which means “We can quickly evacuate victims to Israeli hospitals.” in the Gaza Strip. (IDF Spokesperson Unit) There has been “an emphasis on the use of blood products since 2013 to stop bleeding,” the IDF medical specialist said. He added that the IDF is the first medical organization to “use plasma at the wound site instead of salt and water.” He noted that the IDF implemented a sophisticated rapid fire system to provide blood to wounded soldiers. A telling example: Blood was placed on the backs of first responders in coolers to stop bleeding and control hemorrhage. The method “saved a significant number” of wounded soldiers. A further improvement in first response medicine that saves lives in the war zone involves an “advanced learning and data collection system that transmits data over technical networks so that each provider can view patient data.” The IDF specialist said that “all relevant medical officers in the chain can see patient data. This system had very good results.” Rapid medical evacuation of wounded soldiers from Lebanon by the IDF by helicopter. (IDF) The mortality rate is the best index to quantify care, said the IDF medical specialist. The results have been dramatic. According to IDF data, the mortality rate during the 2006 war against Hezbollah was 15% in contrast to 7.1% during 2023. The IDF medical specialist said that Israel’s military medicine apparatus has been based on the 2012 US study “Death on the Battlefield (2001-2011): Implications for the Future of Combat Casualty Care,” which covered US medical aid during the war in Iraq. IDF medical personnel with wounded soldiers in Lebanon awaiting the arrival of the helicopter. (FDI)Dr. Fox News senior medical analyst Marc Siegel, also a clinical professor of medicine and practicing internist at New York University Langone Medical Center, told Fox News Digital: “Battlefield advances based on the latest technologies that have been developed in Israel, including surgical techniques and the latest burn treatment, Nexobrid, not only help today’s wounded, but also drive medical and surgical advances around the world.” Siegel’s latest book, “Angels Among Us: How God’s Messengers Play a Role in Healing,” features a chapter dealing with a medical rescue during the Gaza war. The US military and IDF have been cooperating for years on how to advance battlefield medicine. (IDF) According to an April 2026 US military report titled “Medical Lessons Learned from the Israel Defense Forces,” US military authors explained in the 78-page study the urgent need to absorb Israel’s advances since the start of the Iron Swords War campaign in 2023. Israel had to go through a painful process of contact transformation that the United States now has the opportunity to avoid. The time to prepare is now. Simply possessing clinical and tactical skills is insufficient. “joint collaboration, and American officers came to learn from the IDF.” Benjamin Weinthal reports from Israel, Iran, Syria, Türkiye and Europe. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal and email him at benjamin.weinthal@fox.com.
