MDA medic recounts identifying daughter among Majdal Shams massacre victims. - AFMDA
News  |  August 13, 2024  |  Israel Press

MDA medic recounts identifying daughter among Majdal Shams massacre victims.

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Two weeks after Hezbollah killed 12 Druze Israeli children in Majdal Shams, Adham Safadi, a senior MDA medic recounts how he identified his dead daughter lying on the ground with her Arsenal jersey and then saved an injured child.
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The nightmare of every medic happened to Adham Safadi, 50, just over two weeks ago when he identified his 12-year-old daughter Finis among the bodies of 12 children and teenagers murdered in the massacre carried out by Hezbollah in the rocket strike on Majdal Shams.

“As soon as I entered the field, I saw my daughter and her friend lying on the ground. I looked at her; her body was intact, but she had suffered a head injury that left her no chance. I bent toward her, placed my hand on her chest, and asked her to forgive me,” he told Ynet.

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