Those racist, baby-killing, genocidal Israelis are at it again ..
Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up Wednesday to operate on three young girls from the Gaza Strip under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between the Hamas-ruled territory and the Jewish state.
Doctors said the lives of the children — aged 7, 4, and 8 months — would have been in jeopardy without the surgeries.
The baby underwent open heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect, while the older girls were treated to close holes in their hearts. The operations were successful and the girls are doing well, doctors said.
"We ignore all the politics and we are on great terms with the doctors in Gaza, despite violence and wars," said Dr. Akiva Tamir, head of cardiology at Wolfson Hospital near Tel Aviv, who performed the operations with Dr. Rula Awwad, a Palestinian surgeon from the West Bank.
Israel sealed off its borders with Gaza in June after the violently anti-Israel Hamas took over Gaza last June. Palestinians in Gaza are not allowed into Israel for security reasons but some patients with severe medical conditions are granted entry.
The doctors belong to an Israeli humanitarian group called Save A Child's Heart, which treats children suffering from heart problems in conflict zones or areas where medical facilities are not up to par.
Tamir said the program has treated 250 children from Gaza in the past year.
In October, the group successfully operated on two Iraqi children with heart disease who were flown to Israel for surgery.
Since its founding in 1996, Save A Child's Heart has treated 900 children from Gaza and more than 1,000 from Iraq and other Arab states that have no relations with Israel, as well as countries across Africa, program director Simon Fisher said.
Where else in the world is any sovereign state obliged to expend it's resources, to provide medical treatment, out of the public purse, to foreigners? Children or not? Just because they have a common border? That's risible.This population has long since declared war on Israel, and ever since it has sent rockets and suicide bombers to kill the children of Jews.
Why, when the EU is pumping all this money into palestine, can they not shift for themselves and treat their own people, in their own hospitals?
It's about time all this came to a halt. Make them learn the lesson, that if they do not shape up, and form a decent society, their children will be left on a ward, to meet their fate. But the Hamas will fix them up with a lovely coffin, as they go tearing down the street in front of the news cameras.
#4Right Wing Conspirator
at 4:31 pm on Mar 12, 2008
Where else in the world is any sovereign state obliged to expend it's resources, to provide medical treatment, out of the public purse, to foreigners?
4 comments, latest by Right Wing Conspirator at 4:31 pm 3/12
Those racist, baby-killing, genocidal Israelis are at it again ..
I bet you won't see that mentioned in the Arab press.
Where else in the world is any sovereign state obliged to expend it's resources, to provide medical treatment, out of the public purse, to foreigners? Children or not? Just because they have a common border? That's risible.This population has long since declared war on Israel, and ever since it has sent rockets and suicide bombers to kill the children of Jews.
Why, when the EU is pumping all this money into palestine, can they not shift for themselves and treat their own people, in their own hospitals?
It's about time all this came to a halt. Make them learn the lesson, that if they do not shape up, and form a decent society, their children will be left on a ward, to meet their fate. But the Hamas will fix them up with a lovely coffin, as they go tearing down the street in front of the news cameras.
Ever been to the US, Monty? :)