The first day that we entered Gaza, I was on my period.

I, like, walked out of the vehicle, changed my pad, and then I, like, speak about it with the men soldiers that were in the vehicle with me.

To them to understand that I need help and I need my privacy.

But it didn't prevent me from doing everything that I did.

Hey, listeners, it's Mishi.

So, as you know, we're continuing our series of wartime diaries,

in attempt to collect slivers of life during these difficult days.

One of the very few positive outcomes of this war is that the

ongoing debate surrounding the participation of female soldiers in combat has been decisively

answered. Women are, as the IDF chief of staff Herzia Levi told the soldiers of the mixed-gender

battalion Karakal back in November

an integral part of the military effort. They serve in tanks and in field intelligence posts

as pilots and naval officers, infantry soldiers, engineering specialists, canine handlers, medics,

and the list goes on. In fact, out of the 625 doctors and paramedics operating in Gaza in late December, 73, more than 10% were women. Our producers,

Jael Ben-Khorin, and Mitch Ginsberg drove down to Machinetsur

in army base near Yerucham

to talk to one of them,

First Lieutenant Dr. Sharon Guttmann Gillo.

Here she is.

So my name is Dr. Sharon Gutman Gilor.

I am 28 years old.

And I am a military physician or a medical officer.

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