Nothing could have prepared me for the horror of the past year. I’m an emergency medical technician for the Palestine Red Crescent Society, working in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
My darkest moment came when four of my colleagues were killed when their ambulance was directly hit. I was on duty and part of the team that collected the bodies of our colleagues. It is like collecting your own remains because you wear the same uniform, perform the same duties, work in the same vehicle and sit in the same place as your fallen colleague. We are one unit; it really could have been me or anyone of us who was killed.
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