As promised last week, this article contains just a few of
the recent cases of Arabs and Muslims who have benefited by receiving vital
medical services from Israel. These
examples totally destroy the lies of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
mob that Israel is ethnically cleansing Arabs from the Jewish State. For those
that want further proof, please read my previous blogs on the subject here,
here,
here,
and here.
Again, for my sources to this latest blog, I am using only
medical news articles since January 2013 – i.e. just the last four and a half
months.
I’ll start with a few examples of Israelis saving the lives
of Palestinian Arabs.
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In May, the Israel Defense Forces became the first army in the
world to use powdered blood products in field operations when dry blood plasma
was given to a
Palestinian Arab with internal bleeding following an auto accident. The
man recovered at Hadassah Hospital and has since been discharged.
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Back in February, IDF medics saved the life of a Palestinian
Arab motorcyclist who suffered severe
abdominal bleeding in a crash with a mini-bus near Shechem, otherwise
known as Nablus. He was then taken to
Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, near Tel Aviv.
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In the same month an IDF medical team saved the life of a
13-year-old Palestinian Arab dialysis patient whose life was in danger due to pulmonary edema. He was then transferred to the Meyer
Children's Hospital in Haifa, which specializes in Pediatric Nephrology
Dialysis.
Then here is Orit’s
story of her service as a medic in the Israeli army where she saved the
life of a Palestinian Arab boy caught in machinery. Later on she had to treat a notorious terrorist in prison. She gave him IV fluids and medication -
everything he needed, since she was trained to treat those in need regardless
of their nationality and moral standards.
Moving on to Gaza:
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400 Gaza residents were treated at Rambam Medical Center in
Haifa last year. Siblings Ahmad and
Hadil Hamdan both suffer from chronic kidney disease and receive
regular dialysis treatment at Rambam.
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3-year-old Mohammed has no hands and feet and lives
at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan because his parents and the
Palestinian Authority abandoned him.
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Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tel Aviv and an International
Christian church have set-up a project called "Rescue
the Child" to treat children who receive inadequate healthcare in
Gaza and the Territories.
Israel must be doing something right. World Health Organization director general
Margaret Chan made her first trip to the Jewish State and visited
Gaza children at Tel Aviv’s Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital. She said,
“I’ve come here to learn from your excellent health system”. WHO reported that in 2012 Israel approved
immediately 91.5 percent of PA applications for Gaza residents to receive
medical care in Israel proper, while an additional 7.2 percent were approved
pending a security check. In total, 210,469
Palestinian Arabs received medical treatment inside Israel proper in
2012.
In Israeli hospitals Arab-Israeli doctors work alongside
Jewish-Israeli doctors. At Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, there are some 60
Palestinian Arab doctors in residency.
The director of the emergency department at Hadassah University Medical
Center is Muslim
cardiologist Dr. Aziz Darawshe from the Arab village of Iksal near
Nazareth, who is also chairman of the Israel Society for Urgent Medicine.
Israel views all life to be sacred. Three
young Iraqi children were brought to Israel in order to receive lifesaving
medical care from Israel’s international organization Save A Child's
Heart. In addition, Israel Defense
Force medics treated
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Seven wounded
Syrians in February – one in a critical condition
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Four Syrians in March after they approached the Israel-Syrian
border seeking medical attention – two
were seriously hurt
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A Syrian
suffering from shrapnel wounds in April, who was evacuated to to the
Ziv Hospital in Tzfat.
So many Syrians have sought help from Israel that the IDF
has set-up an army field
hospital near the border fence, similar to that employed in Haiti after
the earthquake. The field hospital avoids having to transport serious cases on
long, risky journeys to hospitals inside Israel.
Finally, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan may be blowing hot
and cold rhetoric at Israel, but his ex-Finance Minister knew where to turn
when he needed
treatment to wean him off dialysis and avoid a kidney transplant. Kemal Unakıtan spent nearly two-and-a-half
months at the International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy
in Tel Aviv, where he received Israel’s groundbreaking stem cell treatment.
I wish a speedy recovery to him, and all Arabs and Muslims
who have rejected the BDS call and accepted Israeli medical assistance.
My next blog on this subject will cover Israeli medical
innovations and services announced in 2013 that benefit all of
humanity. I’m sure you will know
somebody who will need them.
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