New Articles About the WGH’s Role in Treating Syrians

The Christian Science Monitor was commended on Camera.org (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) for an article praising the humanitarian efforts of Israel in treating wounded Syrians, a country that technically, Israel is still at war with. The original CSM article can be read here.

An article on al-monitor.com highlighted the difficulty the WGH staff face in treated wounded Syrians, especially children. Doctors are seeing a particularly insidious wound, a single sniper shot to the spine of children. The would paralyzes and is designed to cause suffering.

Dr. Yoav Hoffman of the Western Galilee Hospital, says he's treated a number of Syrian children who appear to have been intentionally shot in the spine by a sniper. Christa Case Bryant/TCSM
Dr. Yoav Hoffman of the Western Galilee Hospital, says he’s treated a number of Syrian children who appear to have been intentionally shot in the spine by a sniper.
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