A Civil Defense worker recounts how Israeli aircraft targeted five of his colleagues
No.
4267
Date
5 January, 2024
Original Social Media Post
"A civil defense worker recounts how Israeli aircraft targeted five of his colleagues while attempting to rescue three victims from the Hifa Medical Center in eastern Gaza City. #GazaGenocide"
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Archivist Notes On This Video
Transcript of Arabic-language audio:
"Here, 9 guys from this hospital were martyred. 3 and another 5 from the Civil Defense"
0:12 "And here you see they toppled and crushed our vehicles
0:22 "We were here at this spot. They burned the ambulances"
A visual tour of the devastation at Hifa Medical Center in eastern Gaza City, featuring rubble, burned schoolbuses, a partially-buried fire truck, and Civil Defense workers in their orange vests surveying the scene.
Documenting a systematic pattern of targeting Civil Defense personnel both while working, and in their homes with their families.
- As of September 8th, 2024, 83 members of Gaza's Civil Defense have been killed, with the most recent being Colonel Mohamed Morsi, Deputy Director of Civil Defense in northern Gaza, who was martyred with a number of his family members after their home in Jabalia camp was bombed.
Relevant articles:
"Israeli attacks kill at least 82 civil defense personnel, injure hundreds in Gaza since Oct. 7, agency says"
https://x.com/MiddleEastMnt/status/1825513095407563197
"An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed a senior aid official and four members of his family. His civil defense group fights fires and rescues people trapped in rubble. So why was he attacked?"
https://x.com/KenRoth/status/1832792115060867334
"What does it mean to be a Civil Defense worker in Gaza?"
https://x.com/palinfoen/status/1816903815230292270
"At least 82 Palestinian civil Defense personnel have been killed by the Israelis since October"
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1825157332688388170