They were martyred in their hands before being recognized.. Paramedics tell Al Jazeera Net of trying to save their families in Nablus

Nablus -

“We were summoned through a call (a team specialized in cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to the hospital’s emergency room, and my colleague Elias Al-Ashqar and I were the first to arrive to treat the injured, including two whose hearts had stopped and one of them was martyred. We tried - with the surgeon - to resuscitate the heart of the other patient, but soon he was declared dead as well. At that moment, we looked at the martyr's face, and the shock was that he was the father of Elias."

With these words, Ahmad Aswad, an intensive care and cardiac care nurse at An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus, summed up the moment of the death of the father of his colleague at work, Elias Al-Ashqar, and said that they spent about 40 minutes trying to revive his heart without knowing who he was. power to save him."

Al-Ashqar is one of the 11 martyrs who were killed by the bullets of the Israeli occupation forces that stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank yesterday morning, Wednesday, and assassinated the resistance fighters Hussam Aslim and Muhammad Al-Junaidi, two of the most wanted persons, and wounded hundreds of different injuries.

He moved between his father and the others

The nurse, Aswad, told Al-Jazeera Net, "We rushed to save the injured, who were overwhelmed by the emergency center, and the heart of the martyr Al-Ashqar stopped completely, so my colleague Elias and I tried to resuscitate him after opening his chest and taking him out in our hands, but the bullet that hit him was of the deadly explosive type, and I alone extracted 15 shrapnel from his heart." .

In this case, Elias continued to treat the injured without knowing him and did not skimp on the other wounded by providing treatment at the same time, until the doctor announced the death of Abdul Hadi Al-Ashqar, and at that time Elias looked - as we are - stunned at the injured person and shouted, "This is my father, my father."

Sadness and our sense of oppression and shock increased even more when the four brothers of Elias arrived and their wailing filled the emergency room, "My father died, my father died," while Elias held his pain and remained silent.

He was killed in his hands

Abd al-Hadi Abd al-Aziz Ashqar (61 years old), a resident of the Askar refugee camp, was fatally shot while working as a driver in the eastern region of the city.

Through a special code, the patient’s condition is diagnosed and doctors, nurses and assisting staff are summoned, especially in emergency situations, to provide assistance away from the patients’ names. What is important is “saving the life of the patient or the injured,” according to what the medical director of An-Najah National University Hospital in Nablus, Dr. Abdul Karim Al-Barqawi, says. .

Al-Barqawi adds to Al-Jazeera Net that they give special names and symbols to the patients during their treatment, and that is why the nurse Elias took care of saving the injured without his knowledge, "We were all shocked at the moment we discovered that the martyr was his father."

Barqawi indicates that they worked with a large crew - yesterday, Wednesday - that exceeded 50 doctors and nurses to rescue two martyrs and 16 injured people, including serious cases that required surgeries without the presence or knowledge of the injured's family.

And he added, "We prepared other departments to receive the wounded after the emergency department was full, as is the case in most of the city's hospitals. The event is great and words fail to describe it."

Pull it from the center of the lead

Like the nurse, Elias, was the case of the Red Crescent Society paramedic, Muhammad Baara, who transported his elderly relative, the martyr Adnan Baara (72 years old), without knowing him.

The medic, Baara, told Al-Jazeera Net - that the martyr was lying in his blood on the ground, and no one could reach him to save him because of the spread of Israeli snipers and their shooting at everything that moved.

However, after vigorous attempts, Adnan and a colleague arrived at the martyr, put him on a stretcher, and took him to the ambulance.

Baara adds that his relative (his father's uncle) was wounded by a bullet in his neck and another in his waist, "and I realized that he was martyred, but we waited until he entered the hospital and the doctor announced that, and then I checked his identity card and realized that he was my relative, so I called my father to tell him that."

And the paramedic added, saying that the sixty-year-old martyr did not commit a crime that warranted his death, "he was returning from the Nablus municipality after preparing a clearance certificate for his shop in the middle of the market."

He describes the “difficulty and darkness of the scene” yesterday, saying that the military operation was “the most violent among its predecessors” in all respects, especially in terms of its timing, mechanism, and the huge numbers of martyrs and wounded, which raised their state of alert even more, and the work was to save the injured without trying to know them. .

With about 17 ambulances from various medical centers and in most of the governmental and private hospitals in Nablus, doctors and paramedics worked to confront the "Israeli massacre," as described by Ahmed Jibril, the ambulance and emergency director of the Red Crescent Society in the city.

massacre

Yesterday, Wednesday, the occupation army operation resulted in the death of 11 Palestinians, the wounding of 152 with live bullets, and about 300 cases of severe suffocation with tear gas, in addition to 40 cases of falls, and 7 injuries after they were run over by Israeli military vehicles.

Jibril describes the "massacre" to Al-Jazeera Net that "the event was very difficult and violent, and it began to target citizens with indiscriminate fire from the occupation soldiers directly and through drones, which caused a large number of casualties, most of them civilians, including the elderly and children."

Jibril added, "We did not try to identify the injured, and our concern was to save them and transfer them to different hospitals, and for this reason many families were late in knowing the whereabouts of their martyred and injured children."

Closely, Al-Jazeera Net monitored the state of shock that afflicted the families of the wounded and martyrs in the city's hospitals, especially the Rafidia Governmental Hospital, to which the largest number of them arrived.