When Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month, an Israeli Arab paramedic insisted on staying at the scene to try to save lives.
But he sacrificed his own. Awad Darawshe was 23 years old, an Arab Muslim and a citizen of Israel. Awad Darawshe was 23, single, handsome — but he wasn’t at the Tribe of Nova festival to dance. He worked for Yossi Ambulances and was among a team of paramedics assigned to work the festival in a tent on the site’s periphery.
“He said, ‘No, I’m not leaving. I speak Arabic, I think I can manage,’” said his cousin, Mohammad Darawshe, who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from his home in northern Israel. A funeral was held Friday in Iksal, a small Arab-majority village about 3 miles southeast of Nazareth. Several thousand mourners attended.
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