(Jerusalem Post) Ben Lynfield - Ziv Medical Center in Safed has treated 800 Syrians since 2013, making it the largest Israeli treatment center for wounded Syrians. Social worker Fares Issa, 39, from Gush Halav, has handled all the cases of Syrian patients in the hospital. He says those who arrive at the hospital "are wounded by gunfire, shrapnel, severance of limbs, stepping on mines and car accidents caused by snipers firing at the wheels of cars." Some of the cases have left a deep impression on Issa. A year ago a child was admitted to the hospital. "The child who lost his legs, a 12-year-old, was screaming in the trauma room, 'Don't treat me, because we don't have money to pay for the hospital.'...My dream was to see him walk on two legs. Three months later, with the help of the hospital and the director, with the very supportive environment, they had given him a lot of things - games, clothes, a tablet so that he could pass his time and enjoy. In the end, I gave him two prosthetic limbs with the help of which he was able to stand up and walk."
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