Palestinian nurse spots own father among dying casualties in Nablus

NABLUS: When the Zionist entity conducted its deadliest raid in the occupied West Bank in almost two decades this week, a young Palestinian nurse rushed to help. As critical case after critical case succumbed to their wounds, Elias al-Ashqar, 25, let out a blood-curdling roar. “My father! My father,” he screamed, as he realized his dad was among the 11 people killed in the raid on the city of Nablus.

“I was on my regular shift in the hospital on Wednesday morning. I was busy with a group of medical students from An-Najah University,” Ashqar told AFP. It was then that the emergency department alarm bell sounded, warning of multiple incoming casualties, an increasingly frequent occurrence amid the growing violence of recent months. As he entered, he saw two people on opposite beds. “The doctors were trying to resuscitate them,” he told AFP, tears welling in his eyes. “I helped the doctors with the first patient. He was young but soon died, so I tried to help save the life of the second man without looking at his face. The doctors were trying to resuscitate him, so I left them to help other cases… but I had a strange feeling the second wounded man belonged to me. I ran back and asked about him, and they told me that he had been martyred, so I subconsciously pulled back the curtain, and discovered that the martyr was my father.”

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