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3,000th Palestinian Child Has Heart Operation in Israel through Save a Child's Heart
(Times of Israel) Jack Mukand - Amir Yichya Mabchuch, a 5-year-old boy from Jabaliya, just north of Gaza City, was brought on Sunday to the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, where Israeli doctors performed open-heart surgery to save his life. He was the 3,000th child from the Palestinian territories to undergo such surgery in Israel, brought by Save a Child's Heart, an Israeli NGO that since 1995 has helped more than 6,000 children from 65 countries, mostly in the developing world. Amir's mother said, "When the doctors told us there was a possibility for Israeli doctors to carry out the complicated operation Amir needed, we were so happy. Everyone here in Gaza talks about how Israeli doctors are the most professional in the world and that they can be trusted completely." Mabchuch family members said they will return to Gaza with profound gratitude toward the Israelis who went out of their way to help Amir.