Israel Police Lt. Dean Elsdunne shields an Arab boy celebrating the last Friday of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s Old City, during an Iranian missile attack, March 13, 2026. Credit: Courtesy.

Video footage of the incident, which went viral on social media, shows Elsdunne giving the boy his helmet as he rushes his family to a safer place.

“It’s extremely dangerous,” the officer tells boy’s mother, as he notes that missile fragments hit close to the site several days earlier.