When Raed Qazmouz and his team of Palestinian first responders finally reached Derna last week, he was stunned by the sheer scale of disaster in Libya’s flooded Mediterranean city.
The 41-year-old lieutenant colonel is the head of the Palestinian International Cooperation Agency (PICA) rescue team, whose 35 members had completed their week-long mission in Derna on Thursday and were on their way back to the occupied West Bank.
