‘He Died in My Arms’: A Heroic Gaza Civil Defense Worker Speaks to The Palestine Chronicle (PHOTOS)

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By Palestine Chronicle Employees

Ibrahim Ashraf Abd al-Nabi is a 43-year-old father of 4 youngsters from Gaza. He’s additionally the top of the Civil Protection in Jabaliya, within the northern Gaza Strip.

As a result of nature of their work, civil protection employees are thought-about heroes in every single place. That is very true in Gaza, the place repeated Israeli navy assaults and an ongoing siege make emergency conditions notably harmful for everybody concerned.

“In occasions of warfare, our major activity is to retrieve the wounded from underneath the rubble and evacuate them to a protected place,” Ibrahim advised The Palestine Chronicle.

“Sadly, in lots of circumstances, we should additionally retrieve our bodies,” he added.

Ibrahim advised the Chronicle that one of the tough conditions came about throughout the newest Israeli warfare in August, when he acquired an alert that the home of the Abu Jasser household had been focused.

“We instantly went to the scene. The constructing had been hit and was was rubble. Nevertheless, at that time the rubble itself was collapsing due to the variety of individuals standing on prime, attempting to rescue these trapped beneath,” Ibrahim mentioned.

“There was a younger man standing subsequent to me. In a second, he fell inside. I attempted to lift his head, utilizing my naked fingers, to maintain him respiratory. However he was bleeding profusely and there was nothing I might do for him. He took his final breath whereas I used to be nonetheless holding him.”

“It was the primary time anyone died in my arms,” Ibrahim mentioned. “We moved him on a stretcher and to the hospital, the place we prayed for him.”