An ambulance arrives at a hospital in Ashkelon, south Israel
An ambulance arrives at a hospital in Ashkelon, Israel.
  • Physician's assistant Michele Freund was on vacation in Israel when Hamas launched surprise attacks.
  • Freund told CBS News she decided to stay and volunteer at a Tel Aviv hospital.
  • Freund is volunteering at the same hospital where her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, worked.

Michele Freund, a physician's assistant from New York City, was on vacation in Israel when Hamas militants launched coordinated surprise attacks that killed at least 1,000 people, including at least 22 Americans, and wounded 2,806 others.