I waded through bodies on ‘Road of Death’ to save Oct 7 victims riddled with bullets…I’m haunted by dying soldier’s face

A RESCUER has told however helium had to wade done bodies of guiltless civilians slaughtered by Hamas terrorists connected the "Road of Death" connected October 7.

After receiving endless reports of gunshots and casualties successful confederate Israel, Chezi Rosenbaum rushed successful an ambulance to assistance rescue civilians and IDF soldiers.

A seasoned rescuer and unpaid for the United Hatzalah, helium was 1 of the archetypal medics to scope the tract of devastation, hoping to prevention arsenic galore lives arsenic possible.

In 1 of the darkest days successful the history of the bloody Middle East conflict, barbaric Hamas terrorists stormed dozens of Israeli kibbutzes adjacent the Gaza border.

Hundreds of radical were brutally butchered by unforgiving Hamas thugs.

Armed with grenades and RPGs, they wrought havoc successful the aboriginal hours of the Jewish holiday - indiscriminately raining down bullets and rockets connected Israeli civilians and burning galore of them alive.

It was a brutal run of panic that resulted successful the deaths of immoderate 1,200 people, portion 253 others were taken arsenic hostages - galore of whom aboriginal died successful captivity.

As the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) scrambled to support its territory, galore of the country's archetypal responders were called to prevention the lives of hundreds of victims who were injured successful the wide panic attack.

Chezi told The Sun: "I grabbed everything I could, including pliers, bandages, and aesculapian equipment, and rushed to Sderot to help.

"Missiles were falling not excessively acold distant from me. I retrieve seeing the fume rising up from everywhere. I enactment connected my helmet and my bulletproof vest, and I was conscionable driving."

After reaching Sderot, Chezi was met with a country of utter devastation, with countless dormant bodies lying connected the roads and terrorists firing astatine them from a pickup truck.

But what helium witnessed next was thing abbreviated of a catastrophe.

He revealed that the astir horrific acquisition was his travel done the "Road of Death" wherever helium had to locomotion done piles of dormant bodies.

Known successful Israel arsenic Highway 232, it connects bluish Israel with the confederate parts and provides entree to Kfar Aza and Kibbutz Be'eri - immoderate of the worst affected settlements from October 7.

The way besides opens up to the tract of the tragic Nova euphony festival.

Throughout that day, Chezi shuttled galore wounded radical backmost and distant to the Soroka Medical Center done that road.

He said: "There were dormant bodies everyplace I could see, I felt perfectly numb and was acting similar like a robot.

"There were charred cars with bodies wrong ... 1 had a deceased operator inactive pressing the accelerator.

"And I was trying to zigzag connected the roadworthy betwixt the burnt cars and dormant bodies.

"There was a stroller that was turned implicit with a dormant babe inside. I retrieve looking astatine it each clip I passed due to the fact that I went backmost and distant a lot.

"But I didn't adjacent propulsion implicit to stop. I usually effort to halt and spot if there's idiosyncratic I tin help. But I did not situation to crook the stroller and prime the babe up."

Chezi, who described it arsenic a country from an apocalyptic movie, added: "Rocket shells were lying each implicit the place. There were charred vehicles with instrumentality guns connected apical and tanks and different subject vehicles each bombed.

"And it was eerily quiescent due to the fact that determination was nary 1 determination but for us. Everyone was dead."

As the medic began bundling up dormant radical successful assemblage bags, an service car pulled up successful beforehand of him with a worker who had a slug stuck successful his head.

"I pulled retired the furniture and they enactment the worker connected it. I could spot helium had a slug spread successful the caput and adjacent a portion of his encephalon was visible," helium said.

"It was inactive bleeding truthful I pulled retired a bandage to halt the humor and rushed him to the nearest aesculapian camp.

"I was with the wounded feline successful the backmost of the ambulance and helium was whispering to me. He was successful truthful overmuch symptom I could not recognize what helium said.

"I could spot him halt breathing and I knew helium was dormant already. I prepared the assemblage container and enactment him inside. He was the archetypal wounded idiosyncratic I tried to prevention that time but failed.

"Since then, astir each time I spot the soldier's face. I made myself up a story: either helium was saying 'Try and prevention my life', oregon 'Please archer my household I emotion them so'.

"It inactive haunts maine to this time and I volition person to unrecorded with it for my full life."

Little did Chezi cognize that the decease of the IDF worker was conscionable one of the galore devastating memories helium would person to transportation for the remainder of his life.

While connected his mode to a hospital, the exigency responder met 4 pistillate IDF soldiers covered successful holes each implicit their bodies - hiding underneath a heap of mattresses.

"They were young IDF conscripts who were among the archetypal to combat Hamas terrorists aboriginal morning," helium said.

"I asked them however it happened and they told maine it was from bullets and grenade shrapnel.

"They managed to tally to a adjacent gathering and hide. They saw Hamas men singing and dancing extracurricular who believed the young girls were dead."

For Chrezi, who has been successful galore exigency situations before, October 7 was a nightmare that helium inactive cannot forget.

He said: "It was truly difficult. As an exigency medic I person seen a batch of dormant bodies - adjacent performed CPR connected babies.

"But [October 7] was different. It volition haunt maine for the remainder of my life."