For the last eight months, the facility’s spacious, well-equipped trauma center has received a steady flow of casualties from the Syrian civil war, with wounded arriving every few days and sometimes several times a day. These include men, women and children, some with injuries so severe that hospital veterans who treated wounded soldiers and civilians in Israel’s wars cannot remember encountering anything similar.

Israeli hospital on wartime footing as Syrian refugees trickle across the border – Week’s End Israel News | Haaretz – 10/26/2013.

Syria’s a little worse than having the backyard kids beat each other up and going crying off to their mommies, but in some ways, the combat is not much different as it completely degrades the productive capability of the entire societies.

Hospitals do close.

Medicine and medical expertise disappear.

The desperate who can and may seek sanctuary.

So far, Israel, graciously, has accepted a comparative but significant smattering of dreadfully injured and some distraught with the gravity of a medical emergency.

Time precludes more thorough fast reporting at the moment — certainly, the IDF produced a field hospital in the Golan for this situation or worse — but the quick collection that follow should suffice for a message about compassion, humility, inclusion, and integrity.

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In first, Syrian woman gives birth in Israeli hospital | The Times of Israel – 11/3/2013.

NAHARIYA, Israel: Israelis earn good will by treating Syrians wounded in civil war | Middle East | McClatchy DC – 10/15/2013.

At border, Israelis watch Syria’s civil war through a fortified fence – latimes.com – 10/11/2013.

Wounded Syrian girl walks again, thanks to Israeli hospital | JPost | Israel News – 9/23/2013.

In enemy care: Syrians treated in Israeli hospitals – SYRIA – ISRAEL – FRANCE 24 – 9/18/2013: “NAHARIYA, Israel – In northern Israel, wounded Syrians are finding a strange sanctuary. Just a few miles from the Golan Heights, doctors have treated more than 70 patients from Israel’s arch-enemy Syria so far this summer.”

Israeli Hospitals Taking Syrian Wounded – Inside Israel – CBN News – Christian News 24-7 – CBN.com – 9/17/2013.

Wounded Syrians find sanctuary in Israeli hospital – World News – 8/29/2013.

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