Palestinian children from Gaza undergo heart surgery in Israeli hospital
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up at an Israeli hospital on Wednesday to operate on three Palestinian girls, under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Jewish state.
Doctors said the lives of the children - aged 7, 4, and 8 months - would have been in jeopardy without the surgery.
The older children were treated to close holes in their hearts and the baby underwent open heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect.
"The operations were successful and the girls are doing well," said Dr. Akiva Tamir, head of cardiology at Wolfson Hospital near Tel Aviv.
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