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interview we drove to the closest
hospital cuz they needed it um so when
we were on the way there it's about 25
minute drive and on the way there
there's a story that I can't forget I
remember this guy that
was hit his leg from an RPG is laying
down down on the stretcher and this guy
is bleeding from his face sitting down
and the guy who was shying his leg was
sitting near the
driver um and we're driving he was in
the best shape yeah yeah he was in a
great shape better than
me
um and and and we start leg Yeah but
recovered he recovered
yeah
um there's I I I don't even remember his
name I don't remember how he looks like
like we took that day so many people
that were just just chatt in their leg
and we didn't even have time to really
take care of them cuz every person who
was like even when he got to the
hospital hey hello what's your name
great you're breathing okay wait here on
the site till we cuz there's other
people that really need right so when we
were on the way but they don't teach you
that in Hut Sola what do you do when you
have to do triage where like there are
four people injured which one do you
take because H solo doesn't find
themselves in those kind of situations
uh we do sometimes but of course
sometimes if you get a loan to a car
accident with 500 people but of course
that it's not the same thing cuz in but
in a few minutes there's already enough
people to take care of
everyone um but of course that you
always take care first of the guy who
has the most chance to survive did you
did you see at any point during the day
any army ambulances coming in and
towards 8 n o' they were at how is that
possible all right nothing nothing you
can't explain anything that day you
can't explain anything that went like
it's supposed to or not went like it's
not
just you kind even all the soldiers that
were fighting at that point it wasn't it
was people that just heard what's
happening that's what I heard that most
of the it wasn't even an organized
response his people heard and they just
got in their car and ran down with their
gun course of course I every person who
heard what's going on just took his gun
and went into his car and drove D South
and started fighting just every three
four five people got together and drove
to Kar and started to fight together um
like person who was in charge was on
vacation and they didn't even wake up
Nan I don't know and it doesn't
matter would matter to me if I there was
a war going on and no one bothered
telling me um I would get a little
touchy If I Was A J I understand what
you're saying but I I come from a point
that it doesn't matter if they're going
to wake him up or not wake him up
everything will happen this is just was
supposed to happen doesn't matter if
someone else was going to be instead of
him or they just this is what Hashem
wants and we need to see what why he
wanted this to happen
and and continue being strong and doing
the right stuff we're supposed to do and
what's your answer why did this
happen why not okay all right this this
is one of the more depressing takes I've
heard
on on October 7th because we deserved it
okay why this happened because we had it
coming because why not right we we're
just the past few years here we're
living and we're there's so
many so many people that are not keeping
toit and there's fighting and there's so
so you see that maybe there's a reason
we deserve it but but we need to know
how the really take it to a good place
and not to a bad
place from someone who said I'm not
getting up for
shakas all right so you keep going back
and forth to uh to
UHA that that was your day uh yeah
basically and you were busy the whole
time yeah um and at that point when we
were on the way to the to the hospital
um all of a sudden this guy is laying
down on the
bed and we give him IV he's losing a lot
of blood and I'm stopping the bleeding
from the guy who's sitting down and he's
bleeding from his face um and he se's
getting pale and he decide that he needs
to get us Ivy um when you say Ivy you
mean a transfusion like blood not blood
we don't have blood we're just EMTs um
they don't give you guys blood no we
don't have at that point blood um but we
could get him ready to get blood and
give him um till he gets blood we could
give him uh plasma no not PL plasma they
give give you anything what do they give
you like salt water what yep that's it
give you saline that's great yeah that's
great um it does help if someone's a
half hour away from the hospital and
then he till he gets blood it does help
keeps keeps something in his body going
of course um so that's what did I
decided that need we should give him IV
um so Emmanuel was trying to find a
comfortable way to do it while he's
standing and this guy is sitting and he
doesn't have really much room in the
ambulance to take care of him uh so
while he's like finding the people
bleeding everywhere yeah of course the
whole ambulance is full of garbage and
blood and whatever so he's he's trying
to find this comfortable way to do it
and it wasn't the guy on the that was on
the stretcher he sees that he's like
struggling so he tells him you want him
to lay down and I should sit so we look
at each other like how you even able to
talk like what what's going on here and
he's like hey he tolds us
this he's like man I'm not a I'm not a
boy I know what I'm doing he just opens
his seat Bel stands up on one foot picks
his friends up put him on the stretcher
and sits down and I think that this is a
story that's it's not going to happen in
no other army in the world and they
didn't know each other till an hour
before when they started fighting
together and I think that
the the the the strength when someone's
on the way to the hospital without a
without his foot and he sees what his
friend needs he sees what someone else
is need I think this is
a this is us this is who we are now
Emanuel was the other EMT that was with
me in the ambulance and who was driving
Avi avi's driving another AI yeah right
and where did Emanuel come from because
AI was driving and he met you yeah he
met me by the entrance to Gad after he
picked him he picked up okay so did he
get the IV in uh yeah and then did they
switch places again no they stayed like
that till the till the till the
hospital um what were the hospitals
like when we got there there was already
bunch of doctors waiting for us outside
um I mean I had to be a mad house in
there 50 50 60
beds were already struts outside just
for like there's just a a line of
ambulances yeah that were
just civilians and soldiers just coming
off like every ambulance who comes has
two three four five uh people that are
injured and we just drop them off and
continue right away I don't think it was
like this in any other war no it was I
that the a man were there were mash
units you know what I mean like medical
units out on the out in the battle field
and things like that there was nothing
here right it's it's it's it's crazy to
understand I think a good example is so
when right after we dropped them off we
start me and Emmanuel were in the back
we started cleaning the ambulance and we
were trying like we were about to leave
driv yeah and a sudden someone knocks on
the knocks on our window and he tells us
uh the
soldier um and he tells us I was shot in
my hand three hours ago and they they
treat me over here they took care of me
and I need to get back to my unit where
are you going
to so we told them hopen we'll take you
where you need to get
to um so he gets on the ambulance and me
and Emmanuel are cleaning in the back
and we start driving he says this unit
is in Barry so we start driving towards
Barry and I remember when we were on the
way shabus was over uh I was looking at
the clock cuz I really really really
wanted to smoke a cigarette
um so at that point yeah that's what I'm
always thinking during these
situ uh yeah it was really
hard I smoke and see me I'd be looking
for a c going through this yeah I would
be looking for a cigarette yeah and uh
when we were on the way all sudden he
got a phone call from from his friend
that told him uh's finished um yeah we
left Barry they need us in the in the
theot police station there's a lot of
fire over there they need us over there
so he told us listen could you take me
to Z said of course we drove there so
he's got civilians in an ambulance and
there's a firefight going on in stad and
says could you take me to the
firefight yeah does anyone see anything
wrong with this picture no okay just
asking just want to make sure I got this
all
down yeah this is this is who we are and
I think that every splits second over
there just every person who was there th
threw what the best thing he can do to
help and just did it now you were in
stere in the morning already so you we
knew what's going on over there um we
took him straight to the police station
and was there a firefight going up yeah
right when we got there there was uh his
whole unit these seven eight guys were
standing behind this uh this car um and
they were shooting towards the police
station and from the police station they
were shooting towards them towards his
un you didn't think they might decide to
shoot at this ambulance so we didn't
really know at that point and we driving
yeah and we're driving straight there
with all our lights on and his Commander
starts screaming that's what are you
doing they're going to shoot you in a
second like come into this driveway and
turn your lights off so we right away we
turned the lights off we drove into this
small driveway that they shouldn't be
able to shoot us um and they start
shoothing towards towards us um and we
get out of the ambulance we start we
stand on the other side that we
shouldn't get
shot um and I told Abby give me a
cigarette give me a
cigarette and uh
we and I think that that's really a a
second we we lit our cigarette and we're
smoking and all sudden I tell Avi calls
his wife and he tells him that they're
okay and Emanuel calls his wife and I
smoke a
cigarette and I didn't think to call any
body yeah and I and I and I tell them
listen it's like by the way it's today
hey we didn't do kidish we didn't have a
cuos we didn't dve in yeah had hus we
hus more than seven different yeah
different different kind of a cuos um
but really like all a sudden we like
understood like what we went through
that day and and we had like these few
minutes to relax when I say to relax say
relax shooting at you yeah one side of
that on the other
sideo things are nice and calm
now yeah that's what it was he was just
booming the a every every second um and
all sudden his this guy's Commander
comes to us and he says listen there's a
police that's dead here in the street
from 10 11:00 in the
morning could you help us take him like
we can't go cuz every time someone goes
to get him they start truthing J so
maybe you guys could go cuz you're not
like a central Personnel we need the
soldiers and policemen but you guys see
how you
do no you said you have the stretcher
maybe like it's going to be much easier
to do it with the stretcher cuz it's
much easier I would say here borrow the
stretcher let me know how it goes oh
wait here I've got another stretcher
don't worry about it help
yourself so we tell them of course cuz
of
course um and they told us wait one
second and just two people went behind
this car and they started giving
uh yeah covering fire towards the police
station and we ran with two soldiers to
to this policeman's body we put them on
the stretcher we ran back was 10 seconds
12 seconds maybe well you weren't going
to take him out in the ambulance um we
put him in the ambulance and we drove
right to the entrance of and we put him
near the other Soldier we put in the
morning um who was still there who was
still there of course um all the bodies
were taken Sunday
Sunday Sunday Monday yeah I know my
son-in-law went in there was still
plenty of B everywhere yeah um and and
after we when when we got there while we
were dropping him off uh while we were
taking him off like the stretcher and
putting them over there then of course
another car came with two two people who
were injured one of them was shot in his
stomach hiding for 12
hours um till they were able to get to
him um and we took him us to unit a
helicopter who took him to the hospital
um his helicopters yeah two of them uh
they were the first ones
to to start taking injured people to the
hospital the Army would have some like
medical yeah they they did at that point
at night there was also what about
during the
day you can't ask questions I have no
idea I don't know so they no one knows
so now it's it's already what 8:00 at
night now it's around 8 8 8 something
yeah um and you take these two people we
take these two people out
to to and when we get
to
um there was a helicopter and there's
room in the helicopter for two
patients um there was one soldier that
was inside already and there was room
for one more um and when we got when we
got there we said okay like he's going
to the helicopter for sure uh he was
still conscious but he was he needed the
helicopter um and while
the while the United doctor comes and
checks him to see if he wants to give
him medicine like right before they put
him in a helicopter or something well
sudden another ambulance comes with a
soldier that's
unconscious um so I understand that our
patient is going to need to go in a
regular
ambulance um so I say okay and the
doctor runs to the other ambulance to
check the other patient and he comes to
me and he says a hey take your patient
to the helicopter she so look like
you're the doctor we do what you say but
like you're sure so he tells me of
course I said like why so he says your
patient has much more chances to
survive and and and that's the decisions
we need to make that day like that's the
it was the right decision and it's
decision he he just drove to the
hospital they're both alive today but
the the other guy that went with the
ambulance is still in the hospital and
he's he's still unconscious but he's
still
alive um it's a really hard decision
that the doctor made but but that's what
it was that's what we you had to make
the decision the decision and and it was
the right one so you had to drive to
hospital no we we no our patient went to
the helicopter and the other UL two in
you have ambulance yeah one of them went
with a ambulance one of them was just
shot in his hand
so I guess if you had shot in both your
legs and you could run back and forth
then getting shot in your hand is like
days work you could wait here till
there's like four or five of you and
then we'll take an ambulance to take you
to the hospital cuz it's like a shout
when you come back from the airport yeah
it's like a VIP Taxi you know I've been
shot yeah we're waiting to fill up
uh we got room for three more so I'm not
going yet you know I'm not going with a
half full
shroot that's what it was yeah
unbelievable so so now you go back to
stot um after this we drive back to
karaza back to karaza yeah which is
still shooting up and are they still
shooting in St they're still shooting in
STO they're still shooting in farza
they're still shooting ridiculous they
they were hundreds they they just didn't
stop coming um
I think like through the through the I
try sometimes to think about a different
way because I say
like through this whole day there were
over 3,000 terrorists that came in from
Gaza and there were 12 and a half
hundred people that were killed it's
every two of them killed less than
one it's is with how much ammo they came
in like each one came in to kill at
least 30 people
like if you look
D it was supposed to be much more than a
few thousand right they came in 3,000
like you're going to say each one is
going to kill two three at
least they came in with Ammo To Kill 30
but two three at least that's 6 7 8 9
10,000 and it's it's 1,200 it's the
numbers the D he don't don't get
together also by the Nova Festival like
I look at it there was was 3 and a half
th000 people there all waiting on the
Gaza Strip and there were 350 PE people
killed it's one out of 10 it's how is
that
possible it's crazy if you look at it
that way then you understand that really
Hashem was was here every single
second every single bullet knew exactly
where it's going
to um it's crazy also like the stories
people are telling us through the day
it's I know this fellow who came from
South Africa and he was in town when a
terrorist attack took place and you know
he was he was injured trapped knowing
him so people said are you afraid now to
live in Israel and he says no because I
know from South Africa he was in the
South African Army you know he says
every bullet H has has a name on it and
you know where you're going to go and
what's going to be so you could see you
see there's 10 friends just running in a
field and some got giant and
like it's I how anybody made it out like
why I mean there were enough terrorists
to be able to get right especially here
you're in a big open field I understand
you could hide in a garbage can you
could hide over there you could go into
like how it was a big M field where you
supposed to go it's it's it's crazy it's
it's one ala every 10 was killed
it's D it's nothing it's it's hard cuz
each one of them has a story and has a
family and has a uh a story behind him
each one was a person but but if you
look at the
numbers it was supposed to be so much
more so you back
TOA uh we're back to at night we wait
there at that point we see when we get
there back we weren't over there for
like two hours cuz we had the whole
thing around stot until we went to the
hospital and left so so at that point we
see that there's so much Army already by
the entrance so many jeeps and soldiers
that are going in you don't think they
need you we think at that point that
they're probably not going to need us
over there anymore cuz we saw also that
different
ambulances uh were waiting there we saw
like three four ambulances waiting there
so we continue to ambulances yeah all
ambulance do you guys were the only ones
who were there yeah did the government
say anything to you guys afterwards yeah
what did they say why did you why why
did you send the helicopters even though
you were in all that's what they said
yeah and they didn't say to you wow you
got up there first before our ambulance
we're the only organization that doesn't
owe nothing to anyone and no one said
wow you guys deserve citations for
bravery for going out there that
like the that were there and the
civilians that were there who sue us
everyone told us like wow K that you're
going in um but
like we people of course like private
people come and say thank you and how
could how could the people in charge not
recognize that you were the only ones
there you're the only ambulances there
saving people whoever needs to know
knows really the truth and he knows oh I
understand why because otherwise they
have to say how come we didn't send any
ambulances and we didn't send any
helicopters and a bunch of uh sharrows
and barrels over here from hola on some
have to come out with their ambulances
and go and save everybody
some ambulance system is the only ones
fighting in the South I see where that
might not fit into their narrative
right um but yeah that's the that's what
it was again uh I can't go and ask
questions anyone I'm not media reached
out to you afterwards yeah how soon
after um they did this whole big TV show
uh 3 weeks after October 7th uh the
second they heard that we had it's in
udda it's it wasn't
rash one of the big
channels
it's it's very very big it's like the
almost butus isn't that like the right
wing Channel no it's the left oh it is
yeah wow that's the most viewed show in
Israel that what the show that they did
about us um it had a million of views
and so many people reached out to us
after um thank you we were looking for
you thank you for getting us say out
some called us that we took uh care of
their parents or their brothers or their
sisters or their kids um and did these
are secular people interviewing you and
their attitude is
Co kavod or who told you you could go
there who told me I could go there know
I'm saying you know like there was a guy
during the second anada there was a
briefcase filled with explosives that
somebody left to May and it was attached
to a phone so that when the phone rang
it would blow up and the guy happened to
notice it so he pulled out the wire so
when the phone rang it nothing happened
yeah and I understand he was taken in
for tampering with a
bomb unauthorized tampering with bomb it
sounds
like
you so these people at least in the
program they recognize what you guys did
yeah you know um people know that they
use the footage from the ambulance yeah
it's uh it's an amazing uh it's a it's a
they did something really really nice um
and by today I'm while I'm trying to get
back to work to the weddings and to the
DJ jobs um besides that I I continue go
or all over the world and I try to say
our story because I think it's not only
my story I think it's the whole Amel
story and I think it's very important
that other people should hear
it um and know what what we went through
that
day um
so what time did you finish now this is
uh we got home at 1 o00 Saturday night
we got home around 1:00 we left there
around
uh 11 something U was there anybody in
charge who said okay you guys go now or
this was completely up to you you you
basically it wasn't there Sol people in
charge it wasn't the Army it was there
was to you to make the decision to to he
couldn't stop us to say no stay here we
need you um he knew that when we want to
leave we're just going to leave cuz we
it's been going non-stop yeah and we we
left when we saw that really there's
enough ambulances in the areas that
needed
ambulances um we went home we took a
shower we went to sleep for 3 4 hours
and we were back south at 7:00 in the
morning and the next day which this is
Sunday now yeah Sunday we still took uh
a few hundred people but it wasn't like
that were it wasn't like the day before
though there was a lot of already uh at
that point we were near the Nova
Festival bar farza how bad was Barry
very
bad um still
terorist they were still fighting but
again it wasn't like the day before like
they were hiding and every few hours
sometimes like someone uh uh jumped out
from where he was hiding and started
shoothing but it was there was already a
lot of army there and everything was
like he went to the no FAL and there
were injured people any place not not
not a lot yeah um at that that day we
took uh two or three
injures uh civilians that were shot all
a sudden from terrorist that came out in
St even um Terr that were like hiding in
this trees or something for a few hours
and just like jumped the day after when
they saw a civilian walking there they
just started shooting them um and some
soldiers um we're again we were there
the whole day um Monday we were giving
out food to all the soldiers in karaza
we went to buy uh we we saw that they
didn't have what to
eat so we went and we bought 800 two
days later they weren't able to get food
for the no it was it was really my
son-in-law said the same thing when he
was there he said it was really amazing
and we had a really big cuz I remember
that Sunday we went in the morning we
bought 800 hot meals from where uh from
a friend that has a store in
your um we bought a who give him a shout
out um his name is Nim he doesn't own it
he works it so which store is this it's
an they make uh food for for like
yeshivas and stuff like that it's not a
like a store that he sells food um so we
we ordered from him 800 hot
meals um that were ready the day after
and we took it down to karaza and right
when we got there all the soldiers that
were in karaza that it was 720 something
soldiers at that point they all came out
and
720 new different ones went in so who
got the food the one coming out the one
coming in
out all the guys that were coming out
they came out they were they were just
bunch of there's just an amon's wedding
there with exactly enough hot meals
exactly and every single one of them got
a hot meal people told us that they
didn't eat hot food from Friday night
from their meal at home on Friday and
like 7:00 in the morning shabas they
left and they didn't have normal
food um and they were so happy and that
and nobody said Yeshiva food this is
what you're giving us no they really
really happy to to eat and well just
every single one of them they came out
and they were going on to buses that
took them back to their base so just
every single one who went on the bus we
just gave them straight uh hot food
teeth on the way home on the way to
their base and before they went into
Gaza a week later um you have enough
room in an ambulance for 800 hot meals
yep um we put it boxes eight wounded
people put in 800 meals yeah he he
closed it really really good and box it
still warm yeah it was was really really
hot still um and there was 800 meals we
bought a lot of drinks and uh apples and
peers and just gave it all out there and
they were really really happy um
Wednesday we were in karaza going
through all the houses together with the
AR Army to take out bodies and uh and to
help them with whatever they needed um
this first how come hatsa is still there
why isn't the Army taking over this is
Wednesday now why aren't they in charge
they they did take they did take over um
it's not that they needed us I think I
think we were there so we were just
helping uh they could have do the same
thing I think without us without us um
but we there so like why not to
help um Wednesday though there's no
wounded anymore now it's just collecting
the dead collecting the de and and I
remember Thursday morning we we left the
house and we decided we're going to go
this uh first Soldier we took the dead
soldier we took from the from R 34 with
his M16 yeah right at the beginning yeah
so we still there no we went to be's
family he was one of the first bodies
taken care of and his Lev was already
Tuesday he lived where he lived in no he
lived in uh Rishon I think it was so
what was he doing in stay Ro he left his
house the second he heard something's
going on um and he was yeah he was on
the way he was on the way to his base um
and we sat with his with his wife and
with his parents he was 20 years old he
was married for three 3 months
uh his wife was pregnant she just had a
small baby boy a few months ago um they
gave us this whole really nice book that
they put out about uh about him his name
is Amit um and and today we understand
why we had that feeling that we can't
leave we found him we want to leave but
we took about yeah I told the family
were very very happy that we we did did
it um and
they they started telling us stories
about them and that I think that that's
why we all sudden understood why we had
that feeling that we can't leave him
there he was really like a a very big
tadic he used to wake up every shabas
for night and go Davin and he was a
really really special guy a firm guy he
was a firm guy and you didn't know that
he didn't know that um and really after
they told the stories we we understand
why we had that feeling that second that
we can't leave him there cuz and I I
till today like he was the first body
that was taken care of already at
12:00 um there was people a few Mets
from him that were in the same right
position till Monday morning even um so
really he was the the first guy to be
taken care of and and with that kind of
heat it's probably not good for the
bodies it's not good at all
yeah um I mean the kind time you came
around to start collecting on on Monday
and Tuesday I mean it must have been it
was uh yeah there was was bad already um
the main roads uh there was really
people that took uh Sunday
Monday um Sunday and Monday they took
from all the like main roads and uh big
places and Barry was Tuesday Kar Kara
was only Wednesday was the last places
was the
last yeah till till Wednesday uh no one
was allowed to go and to get
even like all the all the fighting
stopped Wednesday yeah Wednesday
Wednesday afternoon already everything
was uh basically finished
there um yeah and then Thursday we went
to be this uh so that was it you didn't
have to go back down anymore on Thursday
no from then no but mat shabas we went
uh North so this whole day when you're
running back and forth you didn't run
out of
equipment um the truth is that y sent
already 10:00 in the morning 10 30 about
arrived by two very big trucks full of
trauma kits IVs just
everything is the one sending the
medical supplies yeah and every time we
went back to Tom we took with us a few
boxes of equipment um and we gave them
to soldiers by the entrance toaza or
doctors that were going in and you were
the only ones with medical equipment
there was nobody else around yeah
basically all right so by Wednesday you
all
done oh so Moi shabas you said you went
back yeah Moi shabas we went North we
thought that Uh something's going to
happen over there but it did it did it
did star the star we we did take uh two
soldiers that were injured over there
but it was not much we were there like
uh for four or five days but they didn't
really need us there up north uh we were
on the bther basically we said hello
tobala um well you should have been
saying goodbye because yeah you could
have just paged them you know what I
mean but yeah that that's what it was
and uh the week after we started getting
back to work and try to get back to
ourselves so I mean how do you get over
something like this uh you don't do they
do they offer you some kind of like yeah
of course youel I think has management
therapy something they do they give you
everything you need uh therapy every
person who's there needs therapy um I
always say that if I wasn't going to
believe in Hashem I was going to jump
out the window Sunday
morning
um you can't see what you see and uh
wake up the same thing in the morning in
other words besides the people the
injured people who are bleeding all over
the place you're driving past hundreds
of dead bodies yeah you know the whole
day back and forth yeah and they just
they just started shooting up all the
cars everything you know the people were
driving they that's what they did that's
what they came to do they came to kill
us um but we're still here it's
interesting because Bay is
secular karaz is secular what were the
other places that were hit very bad
those were the two most uh bad places it
was a little different there was uh army
bases that were really bad uh Nal seem
cuz I don't know where there was my my
son-in-law said that when he was you
know they sent him in to collect the
bodies and he said normally I'm I'm on
the battlefield and I'm collecting the
people who got killed on the battlefield
that's my job and uh he says okay so
you're dealing with soldiers and you're
in Wartime he says but here I'm walking
into a house and the table is set for
shabas you know I mean and you see
everything all set up and it's it's it's
shabas
and everybody's dead you know that's
what it was you see houses that family
like the whole family is dead and the
Suka is still outside was right after
sukus um it's pictures that you can't
forget it's stuff that you go to sleep
with them till today and wake with them
you wake up in the morning with those
pictures doesn't leave you you can't
forget them um but they always feel that
like Hashem gives us the strength to to
be there and do do what we did then he
also give us the strength to to continue
and be good in what we're
doing it's not it's not easy stuff it's
uh even me before that I saw I saw hard
stuff I did CPR and my friends baby on
the shabas table near the kalus it's
pictures you can't forget somebody told
I was in my own I did their CPR on four
people it's somebody told me if you do
pictures you can't forget if you do CPR
right you end up breaking the ribs
uh you can't really do CPR unless you
break the ribs because you have to no
it's not it's not right um the right way
to do CPR is to stop a second a
millimeter before you break the ribs um
but almost every CPR you break rips uh
it's part of the doing CPR um it happens
a lot
um but it
happens um and the the stuff you see as
an EMT it's not easy stuff it's uh and
it's stuff ASO that built you to built
you on but October 7th was different I
also the the way that people were shot
and the way everything and also the
amount of people it's what do you mean
the way they were shot it's the the
terrorists almost everyone after they
shot them they just pulled them out of
the car just you should see that
something what what what was the I don't
know why they did it but I when you come
and see it like that when you come and
near every single car you see two three
bodies it's it's much it's a much harder
scene um I believe some of them they
wanted to kidnap I don't know I don't
want to think like they were thinking
that day I I I definitely heard there
were stories of where they after they
killed them they mutilated the bodies
right you saw some of that
too um not in my eyes but I saw a lot of
burnt bodies I saw it's pictures you
kind uh I have good friends that
saw saw they I heard from firsthand not
from uh they were they were burning down
houses you mentioned right so you saw
any of these houses like being burned of
course yeah of course you have nothing
to do at that point there's this H this
house is burning for few hours already
you know that there's no one to save you
don't have time to
start trying to turn this fire off and
trying to look for people CU at this
time you could go save others the safe
rooms don't sound like they were too
safe what they did the mamad is
basically it's built for if a missile
falls near you then you you are going to
stay safe it does that very well but if
a terrorist come there's no lock on the
mad you just close the door very hard
and and that's it so if a terrorist come
and just opens the door and comes in
that's mad is not going to help much um
and that's what they did cuz they all
got there so some people were able to
really lock this lock their
madim um but what the terorist did if it
was locked and they weren't able to open
it uh they just started burning it from
the outside um so the second they
started burning it people had no
they couldn't breathe so they open the
window a tiny bit and the second they
open the window then the terrorist
coming from the window
so that's have you gone back to these
communities yeah uh I go a lot to to
speak a lot of times I want too back to
these places to speak like since since
the whole thing is over have you gone to
barer yeah um I remember about three
weeks after October
7th um I was on the way to uh army base
to I was on the way a few soldiers
before they were going into
Gaza I was with all my DJ equipment we
were on the way we did for them we
wanted to make supper for them to make
them a little happy before they go into
Gaza so I'm driving I'm alone in my car
with music my car is full of equipment
and all a sudden I find myself on one of
the roads I was driving three weeks
before um and all of a sudden like
everything came back to me um it's the
first time I cried after something I saw
because of something I saw um I just
stopped on the side and I was crying
like a baby for an hour um but I feel
that it helped me so much it it led a
lot out of me um so after we went to the
base um I felt that it did so so good
for me so I drove back from there and of
course nothing happened
but and you've gone back to i g back to
and bar I was I was there I go a lot to
speak for all different uh people who
come to Israel and want to hear um so a
lot of times they go to karaza and to
where the people still living in karaza
now know now is empty be right but
there's a lot of people that are that
want to see what we went through and
want to see what happened um so a lot of
people groups or whatever that come here
so I I go with them back there and I
show them what we went through where we
drove you take groups yeah um and I
think it's part of my my to say over my
hour story
um I see the impact it gives to people
and the I see what ites the people that
all of a sudden they understand what we
went through that day um so I think I
have to understand it I I I I think that
even if we speak here for another year
I'm not going to be able to can't wrap
my head to really explain the the the
smell over there and the the pictures
that you see stuff you can't explain you
can't you just can't but but but you
could give trying to also picture this
this hostage Caravan that they're taking
away down there I don't know nobody saw
it you know they the soldiers or
anything like that to to try to
intervene every single person there that
was working was working alone there was
nothing that was no coordination no
coordination everyone came and just did
what he what the right thing to do is
till 10:00 at night that then slowly
slowly commanders came and people
started working together um but till
then just every single person just went
and did what he thought the right thing
is there's so many people that did so
many big things um and I think that that
also was was something that the
terrorists that came in weren't ready
for that the second they're going to
come in just every single every every
person who has a gun at home and heard
what's happening drove there and they
weren't ready for that um and I think
that that that that's the story of Amel
I
seems to me that if some guy's coming at
me with a gun and I've got an RPG you
know what I mean I'm not going to be so
afraid of him you are unless he's a
sharp Su shooter you know
um the missiles unbelievable I was I was
here in uh in harova we see all the
missiles coming you know my my kids
living in be ches they happen to have
been ra bees they happen to be by me f
but
missile fell right on their street you
know yeah it's something that you're not
prepared for you're not ready for it and
that's why it's more it's maybe even a
little more scary because of that
but today what we're going through is
not much better you know like there's
missiles every single day hundreds of
them um but now we're we wake up in the
morning and we know it's going to happen
so it's not that scary I guess um of
course it's different cuz then there
were terrorists running between us but I
think that we we need to say thank you
that we're here and continue doing good
stuff so now you're back to your regular
H Hotel calls dealing with broken legs
and yeah you know cut fingers and
yeah and uh how how's the ambulance
working hard no I'm saying able to fix
it up if you smash through the gate and
have all the all the mess the back and
everything they clean it up I think I
think they're going to give ABY the
driver a new one they just got three new
ones so he's I think he's one of the
people that are going to get a new one
when he get when he goes on his next
shift they're going to let him have one
of the new ones yeah yeah I'm a lot more
hesitant now to go in an ambulance when
I hear about you know what goes on in
them you to have to be
there all right so that's the message
the message is that every single person
has an opportunity where they have to
make a decision if they're going to
stand up and uh there's nobody to tell
you what we're all going to stand up
each one has his different way to do
that yeah mine is an ambulance other
people are to D other people are to go
down with their gun and shoot terrorist
and each one each one has his his way of
doing his thing I'm thinking of all the
other ambulances that did not go in that
was standing there till
3:00 because uh you know I mean you just
decided to break the rules if going to
get shot then they were going to be very
happy that they they
stay they got killed we we we did right
so each time you came back they were
like doing
it they're still
okay no they were happy to see us no
because listen you
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