Two years after October 7th, the hero first responders of the deadliest attack in Israel’s history worry that the horrors of that day have been tragically downgraded to a footnote in history.
“People talk about Israel as if they have no idea what happened here,” said Elina Bon, a volunteer for the Israeli ambulance corps Magen David Adom.
The 31-year-old worked a 16-hour shift, treating the wounded and transporting the dead in the southern-Israeli city of Ofakim . 6
“When I saw those burned bodies, it was so terrible and so cruel, it took me a few days to even process what I’d seen,” Bon, who works as a study coordinator at a hospital, recalled.
“I just want the world to know about the terrible thing that happened.”
Hamas terrorists claimed 47 lives in Ofakim as part of its c