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IDF Doctor Chronicles Evacuations of Wounded Soldiers in Gaza
(Ynet News) Hilla Alroy - Lt.-Col. Dr. A. completed 77 days of reserve duty as a physician in the Air Force Search and Rescue Unit 669, specializing in evacuating the wounded under fire. On Oct. 7, a family member was murdered in the Nova music festival, and one of his patients was abducted by Hamas. He wrote in his war diary on Oct. 9: For the past two days, the unit evacuated more than 200 wounded from the Gaza border area. This is an unimaginable number of evacuations. An endless stream of civilians and soldiers was flown from the carnage to hospitals. Oct. 17: I spoke with a younger doctor for a long time. He's relatively experienced in treating shock patients from road traffic accidents in the emergency room of a hospital, but less experienced in treating combat casualties. On that cursed Saturday, he was on the base in routine reserve duty and was therefore among the first to deal with evacuating casualties. He talked about seeing dead parents lying on their dead children. Dozens of cars with bodies of parents who tried to shield their children. Both the parents and the children were hit by countless bullets. Bodies of children burned inside cars that were set on fire while they were in them. "The mission was to locate and treat the wounded," he said. "I didn't find one wounded, just bodies."