After describing the medical condition of each IDF soldier he has come to know personally, Prof. Jochanan Peiser turns his head to wipe away a tear from under his glasses.
“This one is fighting for his life,” Peiser tells ISRAEL21c, as we stand at the entrance to the room of an officer with a piece of shrapnel lodged in his brain.
A few steps away, in another bed surrounded by machines, he says with a loving, but pained expression: “For this one, the battle is over. The best we can do is to respect his parents’ wishes to keep him alive.”
We are walking through the intensive-care unit of Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva, and Peiser – the hospital’s deputy director-general — is careful to keep his voice down as he speaks about the young men being treated for wounds they sustained during Operation Protective Edge, otherwise known as the war in Gaza.
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