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Source: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israeli-compassion-amidst-the-atrocities/
Israeli Compassion amidst Syrian Atrocities
(Times of Israel) Dave Sharma - Some 72 Syrian patients have been admitted to Ziv Medical Center in Safed in northern Israel since February. When I visited this week, 15 Syrian patients were being treated, the youngest an 8-year-old girl. Suffering from shrapnel and bullet wounds, burns and crush injuries, they are malnourished, fatigued and traumatized. Many have lost family members. If they had remained in Syria, most would have died or been left permanently incapacitated. Arabic-speaking doctors, nurses and social workers are all available to communicate with the Syrian patients. The writer is the Australian ambassador to Israel.