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Despite Decades of Enmity, Israel Quietly Aids Syrian Civilians

(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - After a rocket critically wounded an 8-year-old boy in Syria, his mother rushed the child to a local hospital, where medics told her: "If you want to save your son, you should take him to Israel." A few days later, the boy and his mother arrived at Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya. Nearly 200 Syrians, about a third of them women and children, have been treated at this hospital since March 2013. More than 230 others have been taken to Rebecca Sieff Hospital in Safed. A Syrian farmer whose grandchildren had been hurt in a rocket attack said he had heard about the Israeli medical care and, ignoring the political risks, worked to bring his granddaughter to Israel. "When there is peace, I will raise an Israeli flag on the roof of my house," he said.

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