At first, Ziv hospital in the northern Israeli town of Safed seems like a pretty ordinary facility. But a few floors up, in a special ward guarded by Israeli intelligence agents, are patients from Syria.
“The majority have been severely wounded children from blast injuries,” Ziv hospital’s senior intensive care paediatrician, Michael Harari, said.
For the last four years, the Australian-Israeli doctor has put his heart and soul into a program that has seen more than 3,000 wounded Syrians receive free medical care in Israel.
“My involvement really started with on particular child. She was the first to expose me [to] all the horrors of the whole enterprise in Syria,” 61-year-old Dr Harari said.
“She was an eight-year-old girl who arrived here with her mother. She was quite severely injured, mainly in her legs.”
Read the full article by Sophie McNeill at ABC News.