12-year-old volunteer paramedic works to save lives in Gaza

A 12-year-old boy says he spends his days racing from one emergency to another across the Gaza Strip, riding with an ambulance crew to ghastly scenes of war to collect the dead and save the wounded.

As an incredibly young volunteer paramedic in the war-torn region, Zakaria Sarsak told ABC News that the carnage he witnesses daily makes him long for his life before Oct. 7, 2023, the day Hamas terrorists launched a surprise invasion of Israel, killing more than 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials.

Now, his homeland has been turned upside after the Israeli military retaliated by unleashing a barrage of missile strikes and a ground campaign that has now claimed the lives of more than 32,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

Read his story: https://trib.al/jerV1Nz
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