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Even as the conflict between Israel and Gaza intensifies four Gazan children arrive in Israel for life-saving treatment

Gazan children receive life-saving treatment in Tel Aviv



As missiles rained down on a growing number of Israeli communities this morning and Israel launched a major operation against Gaza, four young children from Gaza were making their way to Holon for lifesaving heart treatment.

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Despite threats by Hamas to attack Tel Aviv with rocket-fire, volunteer doctors at the Israeli non-profit organization Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), worked to bring the four children – all under the age of five – to Wolfson Medical Center on the outskirts of Tel Aviv for vital treatment. The patients, who reached Israel via the Erez Crossing, were two-year-olds Bana from Elromel and Remas from Jabaliya, one-year-old Osaid from Khan Yunis and Marwan , a four-year-old from Elshatai. The children are attending the regular free cardiology clinic that SACH holds every Tuesday for patients from Gaza and the West Bank. The clinic is held even during the worst times of tension and conflict, and continued to operate as usual during vicious fighting between Gaza and Israel in November 2012. Also at the clinic, recovering from heart surgery are four babies from the West Bank, Gaza, Iraq and Syria. The children are three-month-old Lamar, and one-month-olds Talia, Abdulrahman, and Mear. More...

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