Amirhasan Jamshidpour: Young Red Crescent Worker Killed in Ambulance Attack

Amirhasan Jamshidpour, son of Hamid, was born into a warm-hearted Kurdish family who had migrated from Bijar, Kurdistan, to the outskirts of Karaj. His childhood was spent in a home filled with kindness and hard work – a courtyard where his father, dressed in traditional Kurdish clothing, would smoke a cigarette quietly on a wooden bench while the children ran among trays of tea and flower pots. A home built not of luxury, but of love.

In 2021, Amirhasan became a volunteer for the Iranian Red Crescent Society and served at the Tehran 22nd District Rescue Base. There, he was known as a steadfast individual with a generous spirit. The night before his last mission, he placed his pen in front of a colleague and said softly, “If I leave tomorrow, keep this with you.”

On June 16, 2025, during a rescue operation near Mallard after an earlier Israeli drone strike, Amirhasan moved toward a damaged ambulance to help the wounded inside. The Israeli drones returned and deliberately attacked the ambulance and its occupants. The scene of the rescue was reduced to fire and silence. He loved life, but his humanitarian spirit and his work required him to run toward the dead — and he was killed in a second drone strike.

Now his parents are left not with answers, but with an empty room and a name etched in grief. And the world is left with another mark – a young paramedic killed by Israel while simply helping the wounded.