The construction site is located in Ramat Hahayal, a commercial area in northern Tel Aviv.
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The footage then pans inside the construction site, where huge piles of rubble and broken pieces of wood can be seen piled up as people shout in the background.
Only one of the workers suffered serious injury.
Dozens of people are feared to be trapped in rubble at a construction site in a multi-level vehicle park in the Israeli city, local media reports.
The collapsed structure on the Tel Aviv building site. Magen David Adom declared it a “mass casualty event”, which usually means that at least five people were injured. The Israeli military dispatched search-and-rescue units to assist in the efforts. The garage collapsed during a lunch hour, when some construction workers were eating outside. There weren’t any other people.
Initial media reports that a crane collapsed were incorrect, police said.
“It appeared to me that the roof of a parking garage had collapsed in the building site”, United Hatzalah quoted another of its medics as saying.
As rescue teams tried to find the trapped workers, authorities feared another collapse of the incomplete, unstable structure.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site, which was swarming with search and rescue personnel, late on Monday night, eschewing the Federation Internationale de Football Association 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match between Israel and Italy being held in Jerusalem.
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Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in May that 480 people were killed in construction accidents between 2000 and 2015. She said a third person remained trapped and had not yet been contacted.
