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December 10, 2006
Israeli Surgeons Repair Young Palestinian Hearts
By - Allyn Fisher-Ilan (Reuters/Malaysia Star)
Hala Ketnani, a 10-month-old girl from Gaza, sleeps beneath an oxygen hood in an Israeli intensive care unit as she recovers from heart surgery.
Under the private Israeli program "Save a Child's Heart," doctors at Wolfson Hospital near Tel Aviv repair congenital heart defects for children like Ketnani from the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Jordan, and Africa.
More than 1,000 children, about half from Gaza and the West Bank, have been helped so far.
Shlomo Dror, an Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman, said about 1,000 Palestinians per month receive medical treatment in Israel, up from 600 in recent years.
Meanwhile: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told thousands of Iranians on Friday that his Hamas-led government will never recognize Israel and will continue to fight for the "liberation of Jerusalem."
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Naomi Ragen
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at December 10, 2006 11:38 AM
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It's because of things like this that the Arab powers that be hate Israel. Israel can't help undermining their regimes in at least a subtle way. The wall is not yet high enough for them.
Posted by: Sammy Finkelman at December 12, 2006 04:10 PM