No salary, no equipment.. "Radwan" searches for life among the rubble and flames

In Khan Younis, civil defense worker Ahmad Radwan (45) recounts his experience since the war began on October 7, 2023, participating in difficult rescue operations among the rubble, including extracting a trapped child in Rafah. He suffers from a severe shortage of equipment and fuel, irregular salaries (a thousand shekels every hundred days), and lost 14 of his colleagues, six of them in the Tel al-Sultan massacre. He also suffers from tinnitus since December 2023.

In Khan Younis, civil defense worker Ahmad Radwan (45) recounts his experience since the first day of the genocide war on October 7, 2023, finding himself in the heart of the rubble searching for survivors. Radwan describes difficult rescue operations, including extracting a fifteen-year-old child trapped under a destroyed house in the al-Jnaina neighborhood in Rafah, where the operation lasted from morning until the Asr prayer, keeping him alive with water and oxygen through a narrow opening. Radwan, who carried both a camera and medical equipment, also documents dozens of massacres, including the targeting of the Abu Qouta family home in the al-Shaboura neighborhood. Radwan has suffered from constant ringing and buzzing in his ear since December 2023, along with insomnia and headaches. He notes that civil defense teams were displaced about 11 times between Rafah and the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, and lost 14 martyrs, six of them in the Tel al-Sultan massacre. Workers receive about a thousand shekels every hundred days, an amount insufficient for a week amid high prices and the siege, and they suffer from a severe shortage of equipment, fuel, and spare parts.