‘There Are No Politics Here’: Israel Treats Baby From Gaza

REUTERS/YONATHAN WEITZMAN
REUTERS/YONATHAN WEITZMAN

Arutz Sheva reports: Israeli doctors performed life-saving surgery on a 3 year-old Palestinian Arab from Gaza last month, they revealed Tuesday, insisting to the press that politics has no effect on human life and obligation.

Three year-old Saliman was suffering from a benign tumor on his spine – and was close to paralysis.

“The pathology of the child was difficult,” Josh Schroeder, senior surgeon at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein-Kerem Medical Center, stated to Walla! News Tuesday. “He arrived with an advanced tumor, with considerable pressure on his spine.”

“He could not stand and look forward,” he described.

Schroeder added that the team – which had never seen a growth this big before – reconstructed the boy’s spine to give him “a better quality of life.”

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