“The heart breaks, to think that an entire family existed and in one moment no longer is there,” Zehava Gal-On, former Meretz party leader, wrote on Twitter.One member of Knesset said it was time to take action to prevent any further accidents.“That road has been a danger for many years,” said MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Zionist Union). “At the end of the day, we must figure out how to prevent these accidents. We must install a barrier on the road, at least in part, and I intend to approach the Transportation Minister in order to promote such a plan as soon as possible.”At the scene of the collision, local authorities said the site was “shocking,” and that it was difficult to determine the total number of casualties.Shlomo Landau, who heads the ZAKA unit responsible for the Dead Sea, told public broadcaster KAN that “it [was] hard to count the bodies in the back [of the vehicle]. It’s a sight that [reminds me of] terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, with the smell and everything.”“This is a shocking accident. When we arrived at the site, we noticed two vehicles on the road, one of which was set on fire and full of passengers,” said Magen David Adom senior paramedic Sarah Israeli and MDA paramedic Amiram Mualem. “A 52-year-old woman and a 12-year-old girl were moderately injured; after initial treatment, we brought them to an MDA helicopter that landed nearby and evacuated them to Soroka Medical Center suffering from injuries to the head and limbs.”Assaf Levy, a firefighter from the Negev region, told Army Radio: “This is one of the most serious accidents I have seen during my service. When we arrived, the vehicle was a fireball. As soon as we began to control the flames, the disaster began to unfold. I hope that there will be no more death.”Two weeks ago, a couple and their baby were killed in an accident with a bus in the same area of the Dead Sea.“On the road where eight people are killed in one day and 11 in less than a month, we no longer ask whether this is a bloody road; the harsh consequences speak for themselves,” said Nahmias-Verbin.Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.