Retired paramedic returns to serve his people

No.

2777

Date

19 August, 2024

Found by

@ShehabAgency

Location

📍 Gaza

Original Social Media Post

"📌#قصة_من_غزّة | "أمنيتي أن استشهد داخل الإسعاف.. ضابط إسعاف متقاعد استشهد زملائه فلم يتأخر عن خدمة أبناء شعبه"."
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Archivist Notes On This Video

"My wish is to be martyred inside the ambulance"

Nahed Saleh Al-Shawwa came back as a volunteer to the PRCS around two weeks before this video. After seeing the scale of the massacres inflicted on his people, including the killing of the paramedic juniors that he trained, he came to the conclusion that he must do more and sacrifice for his nation and to honour the martyrs. He was active from 1990 until 2021 and witnessed multiple murders, incursions and wars. He understands he may lose his life in this work but says he actually wished to die as a martyr [serving] in the ambulance. He lived through multiple wars on Gaza but has not seen sheer brutality like in this one, where even ambulances and those inside them are directly bombed. He emotionally mourns many of his colleagues that have been martyred and spurs his current colleagues to remain steadfast and keep faith in Allah.

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