I can't imagine being an ambulance driver in Gaza.

http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/exhausted-and-under-fire-gazas-paramedics-risk-lives-to-save-others

Exhausted and under fire, Gaza’s paramedics risk lives to save others

Hugh Naylor

July 12, 2014

GAZA CITY // For 15 years, Ayman Shahwan has raced his ambulance through the death and destruction of Gaza’s seemingly unending war with Israel.

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“Sometimes you think this could be the end of your life. But you have to do this because there is no one else who will,” Mr Shahwan, 42, said during a short break at Gaza City’s Tel Al Hawa neighbourhood ambulance station.

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During peace time they provide emergency medical care, such as CPR and administer life-saving drugs, while also shuttling patients to hospital, like emergency responders the world over. But unlike their counterparts in other countries, these Palestinians have endured three wars in six years — 2008-2009, 2012 and now.

Since the most recent flare-up with Israel began on Tuesday, 18 of Mr Shahwan colleagues have been wounded in attacks, according to the World Heath Organisation.

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Despite being focused on only humanitarian work and not holding any political affiliation, sometimes the emergency responders are hit by Israeli attacks.

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In the northern Jabalia refugee camp, more than a dozen more were wounded on Wednesday by an air raid that also damaged three emergency vehicles.

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Bassam Ali Sayma, a paramedic that works for Gaza's Red Crescent with an injured boy as they arrive at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on July 11. The child suffered shrapnel wounds from an Israeli air strike near his home in Nussarat, Gaza. Heidi Levine for The National