Tragic moment Gaza medic realises the corpse he has wheeled into hospital is his own mother, killed in an Israeli airstrike | 31 Oct 2024 | Heart-wrenching pictures show the tragic moment a Palestinian ambulance worker realised the body he was transporting was his own mother, killed by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza. "Oh God, I swear - she's my mother! I didn't know it was her!" Abed Bardini sobbed as he leaned over his mother, Samira, cradling her head in his arms. Bardini had unknowingly sat in the ambulance beside her body, wrapped in a white sheet stained dark with blood, as the vehicle bounced across broken roads for about 1.2 miles (2km) toward Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. He made the horrific discovery after the bloody sheet covering her body was lifted at the hospital, where fellow Red Crescent medics tried desperately to console him.