At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Taghreed al-Attar sits next to her husband’s body, which was discovered last Friday in Rafah. Her husband, Anwar al-Attar, left with fellow first responders to Rafah the previous week, but no one returned.
His wife says that when they lost contact with him, people told her he had been imprisoned by the Israeli army. But she says he came to her in a dream, and she saw him in paradise surrounded by rivers and fruit. She couldn’t believe he was a prisoner.
“He never missed work for a moment since the war began. He was injured three times, and everyone asked him to stop working and take a rest,” Taghreed says in a video testimony to Mondoweiss. “But he always said he needed to be a role model for his colleagues and would never stop working and providing services to his people. He risked his life, entering the rubble and extracting martyrs. I am proud of him and hope our children will be like him.” ….more