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Thread #129840 Message #2947184
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
18-Jul-10 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Israeli atrocity: attack on Gaza aid
Subject: RE: BS: New Israeli atrocity: attack on Gaza aid
""One of those who underwent surgery at the hospital is nine-year-old Kurdish boy Aram, who made his way to Israel along with his mother Shawana from Iraq, via Jordan. "His condition has improved. Before the operation he had trouble breathing. Now he is breathing better," said the mother.
"I am glad he had the operation and I was not afraid to come to Israel. Everyone knew that we were travelling to Israel. We did not keep it a secret," she added.
According to a price list published by the Health Ministry, open heart surgery costs NIS 67,000 ($18,000), but the cost of an operation for children who are part of the project is only NIS 27,000 ($7,000).
Wolfson Medical Center Director Dr. Yitzhak Berlovitz said, "We are proud of this project, and hope other hospitals will take an active role in it."
Seems he had to take the pretty way to Israel, rather than risk being taken for a rather small terrorist and being shot on the Gaza/Israel border. And of course he can now go back and suffer slow starvation at the hands of the same nation which provided the medical help.
And one is supposed to cancel out the other?......I don't think so!
Maybe if Israel had not destroyed the Gaza infrastructure, he could have had treatment at home.
Don T.