Rescue forces were sent to Nahal Amud Nature Reserve in the Upper Galilee on Friday after three teenagers encountered a dead body while hiking in the area, Maariv reported.
According to a post made on Facebook by Inbal Shoham, the mother of one of the teens who found the body, rescue forces refused to climb down the hiking path in order to reach the body. Instead, she wrote, they directed the teens remotely while a helicopter from the IDF search and rescue Unit 669 was en route.
"The gap... conduct of authorized bodies is simply disappointing," the mother wrote, describing how her son and his friends documented the body as instructed by police, directed the helicopter, and received contradictory instructions on how to handle the body.
"My son was asked to check its pulse," she wrote, "Afterwards he was instructed not to check, so that he wouldn't interfere with any evidence before a forensics team arrived - a logical decision on its own, but in the end forensics never came to the site, and the rescue was conducted."
Rescue forces label retrieval complex operation
Rescue forces announced that the operation had been complex, involving a series of rope systems in a difficult environment.
"Unfortunately, this is the fifth rescue in less than a week that the unit's volunteers have carried out, and two of them involved a person found dead," the unit stated.
N12 stated that the body had been present in the area for around 12 hours before being found, and that his car was found in a nearby parking lot.