Civil Defense personnel wounded on duty after being targeted by air strike

No.

4281

Date

6 November, 2023

Found by

@palinfoen

Location

📍 Gaza - Gaza City - Al Shifa Hospital

Original Social Media Post

"A group of civil defense personnel were just targeted by an Israeli airstrike while trying to pull out victims from under the rubble in Gaza, resulting in injuries to some of them. #CeasefireForGazaNOW #GazaHolocaust #Gaza_Holocaust"
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Archivist Notes On This Video

Footage of wounded Civil Defense personnel being triaged and treated on the floor of a crowded hospital. The caption explains that they were wounded on duty, while trying to rescue victims from the rubble. A follow-up IDF air strike targeted them.

Original source: "Civil defense was pulling people out from under the rubble, then they were cut off again"

https://x.com/S_Aljafarawi/status/1721462720724082770

Related post that night, showing that Saleh Al-Jafarawi was at Al-Shifa Hospital: "Flare bombs over Al-Shifa Hospital. May God protect us from tonight"

https://x.com/S_Aljafarawi/status/1721627804188483769

Archivist Notes: Targeting of Civil Defense in Gaza by the IDF

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

The details for each video come from social media. None of it has been verified.