MONTREAL — Palestinian doctor Wafiq Othman told a Montreal audience he went to Israel with great trepidation, unsure he could ever trust his Israeli colleagues. - See more at: http://www.cjnews.com/canada/palestinian-md-lauds-israel-saving-children#sthash.andn4qZD.dpuf

Today, five Palestinians are training at SACH, which since its founding in 1996, has treated – free of charge – more than 3,400 underprivileged children from 48 countries, over half of them in the Palestinian territories and other neighbouring countries including Iraq, Jordan and Syria, 30 per cent in Africa and the rest in mostly developing countries around the globe.

He remembers being at the operation of a Palestinian child from Gaza during Israel's conflict with Hamas. "A journalist was there, and he asked the surgeon, Dr. [Lior] Sasson [SACH lead surgeon], if he didn't think he might be treating a Palestinian who would come back one day and kill Israeli children?

"Dr. Sasson said, 'No, I think these children will come back and do peace between Israelis and Palestinians.'" Othman knew then he had come to the right place.

Palestinian MD lauds Israel for saving children