Palestinian medics on the front line fighting to save lives

Israeli forces and settlers are targeting Palestinian protesters – and the medics trying to rescue them.

Niilin, occupied West Bank – Bassem Sadaqa points at a bullet hole lodged in the driver’s door of the ambulance he drives, tangible evidence of what he says is a regular occurrence of Palestinian medics being “regularly targeted” by Israeli forces. The father of five lives in Niilin and has been a paramedic with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) for 20 years. “At first I thought the ambulance had been hit by stones until I saw the hole. The shooting wasn’t an accident, the Israeli soldiers were aiming at the ambulance as I was standing right near it. And it also wasn’t the first time ambulances I have driven have been targeted.”