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Female IDF Paramedics in the Gaza War

(Ynet News) Anat Meidan - Three women in regular service and another in the reserves served in Gaza for several days straight during Operation Protective Edge. The many wounded who the women cared for still occupy their memories along with thoughts of the pain, the operations, and the rehabilitation still waiting for their patients. More than anything, the four paramedics think about those who they couldn't save. Staff Sgt. Yonat Daskal, 23, was released from service after 3 1/2 years as a paramedic and set out for a four-month trip to South America. In July, just after arriving in Mexico, she understood from the many messages left by friends and colleagues in the army that something big was happening. "Throughout my regular service I was trained in preparation for the real thing and there was no way that I would be abroad when it happened," said Daskal. "I was in Gaza for a week-and-a-half straight and then another 24 hours in and out." On one night she was the first on the scene to treat ten wounded soldiers. Sgt. Tamar Bar-Ilan, 21, an armored corps paramedic, entered Gaza and was with members of her battalion inside a tank for 12 days. "I was the only women among the men, but it didn't bother me. We've been serving together for two years and know each other well....But this time it was different. I'd never been in a tank that had anti-tank missiles fired at it and in enemy territory."
2014-08-18 00:00:00
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