The paramedic who described the dead, and was later counted among them

Yousef Khalifa worked as a paramedic with the Palestinian Civil Defence in the Gaza Strip, and had recounted the hardest scenes he witnessed in the course of that work.

Months after giving that account, he was himself killed.

Civil Defence crews in the Strip work without the protective equipment and vehicle fleets the role assumes, which is one reason their casualty rate is high.