Scores of Lebanon’s paramedics killed in Israeli attacks

It was Hasan Badawi’s job to race toward the location of military strikes in southern Lebanon, where, as a paramedic, he tended to the maimed and dead.

It was Hasan Badawi’s job to race toward the location of military strikes in southern Lebanon, where, as a paramedic, he tended to the maimed and dead. He was killed earlier this month while en route to his latest assignment — allegedly cut down by an Israeli drone.

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As a first responder, he is not alone.

Badawi, 31, a father of one with a baby on the way, was a volunteer medic with the Lebanese Red Cross. It is dangerous work helping others in this conflict.