MDA worker tours Australia for Lehavim project

A Magen David Adom paramedic who treated victims during the October 7 attacks is in Australia to help raise funds for a new ambulance station near the Gaza border.

Yarin Shitrit, lead instructor of the Jerusalem paramedic course for women’s national service, spent two days in southern Israel in the wake of the 2023 atrocities, treating casualties while under constant rocket fire and terrorist threats.

Speaking ahead of the Melbourne MDA fundraising event on Thursday night, Shitrit described treating a six-year-old girl who was shot in her family’s safe room who arrived at his position with tourniquets applied to her legs.

“On her forehead was written the time of the tourniquet with black marker, and usually you see it on soldiers in battle, not on a six-year-old girl,” he said.

“She was calm. She was alone, she was not crying.”