“Every word I say about what I saw and experienced yesterday cannot truly convey what was there. A battlefield, bodies of men, women, children, girls, elderly, and animals.
I treated severely wounded soldiers and police officers, as well as civilians, both men and women, under the hail of bullets and missiles falling just meters from the ambulance, like robots. Often, we ran out of all the medications in the ambulance and had to refill.
Anyone who didn’t see MDA teams working in the South yesterday under a rain of bullets and missiles hasn’t witnessed proximity to combat in their lifetime. The first thing you learn in any course is safety. Yesterday, we didn’t think about safety. We went out to save lives with the knowledge that we might not return, and it wasn’t far from reality.
Only one thing concerned the teams: to save as many lives as possible, and indeed, we did that. We saved the lives of trauma victims with the most complex injuries – gunshot wounds and injuries from falling rockets. Hundreds of wounded.
Injured individuals who could speak told me that they saw their friends being slaughtered, and they managed to escape while wounded and hiding for hours with complex gunshot injuries.
Words cannot describe what happened yesterday. The heart is pounding, the soul is aching.
It’s time to unite.”
