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Mother, Forgive Me
A Medics Last Words
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The last hospital bombed. The onslaught of healers, doctors, EMTs.
Where does it end? A destruction in the name of dominance, a violence and theft of land and life. I have an affinity for the doctors and innocent patients. It’s the extremity of beating someone who is curled up in fetal position. It’s cruelty.
I am still reeling from the release of the Medic video last week, a phone found on the EMTs. The video itself is believed to have been leaked by a U.N. representative.
And right now, I urge you to the video below in full, to honor those who died. It will cut to black, keep listening.
“Mother, forgive me,” he said, “this is the path I chose, to help people,” Refa’at Radwan breathed his last, murdered in his ambulance — by Israeli militants on the way to help others.
