Paramedic recalls horrors of Oct. 7 attack at music festival. - AFMDA
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Paramedic recalls horrors of Oct. 7 attack at music festival.

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Israeli paramedic Orit Ohana recalls the trauma and denial surrounding the Oct. 7 Nova Festival massacre, where she risked her life to save others amid unprecedented violence.
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Two years after October 7th, Orit Ohana still struggles with the memories.

“I think the average brain can’t really realize what happened,” she explained. “It’s not human. It’s not human in any kinds of thinking.”

She was having a peaceful holiday morning when the emergency call came. It was the leader of her paramedic team at Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency response team.

“If he called me, he needs me, it’s not a question. And I said, okay, something happened? And he said, the worst things that you could ever dream happened. I said, say, no more. Five minutes I’m in the station,” she recounted.

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