On this picture constituted of an Related Press
video, medic Abed Al Aziz Bardini cries over the
physique of his mom after he realizes it’s her,
shouting in Arabic, “Oh god, I swear she is my
nother. I didn’t realize it was her,” on Wednesday
Oct. 30, 2024, in Deir al-Balah on the Gaza Strip. (AP Picture/Abed Al Kareem Hana)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian ambulance employee made a horrific discovery when the bloody sheet was lifted: The corpse on the stretcher was his personal mom, killed by an Israeli airstrike Wednesday in central Gaza.
“Oh God, I swear — she’s my mom! I didn’t realize it was her!” Abed Bardini sobbed as he leaned over his mom, Samira, cradling her head in his arms. Fellow Pink Crescent medics tried to console him.
Bardini had unknowingly sat within the ambulance beside her physique, wrapped in a white sheet stained darkish with blood, because the automobile bounced throughout damaged roads for about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) towards Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Three individuals had been killed and at the least 10 wounded by the Israeli strike on a automobile in Maghazi refugee camp, in response to Palestinian well being officers and Related Press journalists. Well being officers on the hospital stated two of the lifeless had been males sitting within the automobile, and the blast had fatally injured 61-year-old Samira Bardini as she stood close by.
Abed Bardini was in one in every of two ambulances dispatched to the scene. Again on the hospital, he unloaded the stretcher with practiced professionalism, squinting into the late afternoon solar as he wheeled the physique throughout the hospital courtyard.
Inside, medical workers pulled again the blanket to test for indicators of life, and Bardini’s energy collapsed.
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Later, his tears exhausted, he sat within the morgue beside Samira’s physique together with his head in his palms, comforted by his Pink Crescent colleagues. They held a funeral prayer over her physique within the car parking zone, then Bardini personally helped carry the physique into an ambulance for burial.
A spokesperson for the Israeli navy didn’t instantly touch upon the strike. Israel says it carries out exact strikes in Gaza focusing on Palestinian militants and tries to keep away from harming civilians. However the strikes usually kill girls and youngsters.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 individuals and kidnapped round 250 within the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel that triggered the conflict. Israel’s retaliatory conflict in Gaza has killed greater than 43,000 Palestinians, in response to native well being authorities, who don’t say what number of had been combatants however say greater than half had been girls and youngsters. Gaza’s Well being Ministry stated Wednesday that 102 deaths had been recorded over the previous 24 hours.
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