During the protests for Israeli democracy, a group of hundreds of doctors, paramedics, and mental health professionals came together to provide medical and mental health aid to injured protesters.
On Saturday 10.07.2023, these medical teams awoke to calls for help from the towns around Gaza, besieged casualties and families whose loved ones were bleeding out next to them were crying out for any sort of aid at a time when physical aid could not come. Doctors assisted the besieged via advice, conversation, and in managing acute medical issues from afar. The following morning, teams were already in the field, coordinating among themselves different calls for medical aid, on the front lines and away from them. Doctors and paramedics moved between different towns and villages, helping rescue the people they had spoken to, put up field clinics, provided expert medical and mental health care to those in need, coordinated additional manpower to hospitals and ambulances, and assisted in putting together the operations center for tracking the kidnapped and missing.
Since then, First Line Med has dedicated itself to filling the gaps in the provision of medical aid, and mental health care. Among its ranks are professionals from a wide variety of fields that provide medical, and mental health aid in face to face meetings with survivors and the injured. The organization heads an operations center which coordinates this aid, in cooperation with approximately two thousand different doctors, paramedics, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. In addition to providing aid directly to those affected, the organization helps fill the ranks of other organizations such as MDA and Soroka Medical Center with doctors and other professionals, as well as staffing clinics for internal refugees with attending physicians in cooperation with leading healthcare organizations, professional medical unions, and the Israeli Medical Association. Finally, in cooperation with Brothers and Sisters in Israel, the organization coordinated the purchase, importation, and provision of medical equipment to medical teams and units that required it most.