As Gaza faces constant bombardment from Israel, health workers in the besieged enclave struggle to keep locals alive.
For hours and hours, Moen Abu Aish digs through the rubble of demolished homes to find survivors of Israeli airstrikes, toiling in a vast and desperate search complicated by the shortage of critical supplies and the sheer scope of
Israel imposed a siege on Gaza after the Hamas attack, severing the crowded strip's access to water, power and fuel. In widely shared videos of the aftermath, medics, shell-shocked and exhausted, crouched on the back of their blood-smeared ambulance with their heads in their hands.“There are no weapons. There are no militants. There is nothing, nothing but civilians."
Rushing in the opposite direction of panicked families, he and his team arrive by foot to ravaged homes with little more than flashlights, shovels and other amateur tools, like pickaxes, saws, backhoes and blowtorches to cut metal bars.
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