Wartime Diaries: Sharon Gutman Gilor
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🗓️ 5 March 2024
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Summary
One of 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’s Chief of Staff - Herzi Halevi - has said on multiple occasions, 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 more. In fact, out of the 625 doctors and paramedics operating in Gaza in late December, 73 - more than ten percent - were women. In today's episode we talk to one of them, First Lieutenant Dr. Sharon Gutman Gilor.
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| 0:30.0 | The first day that we entered Gaza, I was in my period. I like walk out of the |
| 0:39.6 | vehicle, changed my pad and then I like speak about it with the man soldiers that were in the |
| 0:46.9 | vehicle with me to understand that I need help and I need my privacy but it |
| 0:52.2 | didn't prevent me from doing everything that I did. |
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| 0:59.1 | So as you know we're continuing our series of wartime diaries, an attempt to collect slivers of life during these difficult |
| 1:06.5 | days. One of the very few positive outcomes of this war is that the ongoing debate surrounding the participation of female |
| 1:15.5 | soldiers in combat has been decisively answered. Women are, as the IDF Chief of Staff Herzia Levy told the soldiers of the mixed-gender |
| 1:25.4 | battalion Karakal back in November, an integral part of the military effort. |
| 1:31.9 | They serve in tanks and in field intelligence posts as pilots and naval officers, infantry |
| 1:38.4 | soldiers, engineering specialists, canine handlers, medics, and the list goes on. |
| 1:45.0 | In fact, out of the 625 doctors in paramedics operating in Gaza in late December, |
| 1:51.0 | 73 more than 10% were women. |
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