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Israeli hospitals extend helping hands to Syria Pt 1

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During the war in Syria hundreds of wounded Syrians have fled to Israel for medical care. Israel's military and Israeli medical sources say that since 2013, more than two and a half thousand civilians and fighters have received free treatment in Israeli hospitals.

A wounded Syrian man receives treatment in the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel.
A wounded Syrian man receives treatment in the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel. Ziv medical center
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It is a unique humanitarian operation since both countries have officially been at war since the creation of Israel in 1948.

In the first of a two-part report, Sabrina Myre meets the Syrians who are being treated in the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, northern Israel.

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