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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 11:05 AM Jan 2017

Under cover of night, Syrian wounded seek help from enemy Israel

It happens nearly every night. After dark, the Syrian wounded come to known locations on the Israel-Syria front in the Golan Heights, driven by desperation to seek help from an enemy army.

Israeli soldiers on lookout or patrol spot them waiting by the fence and whisk them away to a rear position where army medics soon arrive, according to army officials operating in the area that was seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.

Israel refuses to accept refugees fleeing the nearly six-year conflict in Syria, a country with which it remains technically at war. But it has allowed in more than 2,600 Syrians for medical care.

On one bitterly cold January night, gunfire and explosions could be heard in the near distance as Israeli medics dressed the injuries of two Syrian men, one suffering a head wound.

"We're doing everything we can to save their lives, to stabilize them and evacuate them to hospital," said Captain Aviad Camisa, deputy chief medical officer of the Golan brigade.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-israel-syria-idUSKBN1581I4

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Under cover of night, Syrian wounded seek help from enemy Israel (Original Post) oberliner Jan 2017 OP
The Syrians would be rebel wounded, not Assad wounded, so that all makes perfect sense. Fred Sanders Jan 2017 #1
We're about to slam our doors leftynyc Jan 2017 #2
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
2. We're about to slam our doors
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 08:36 AM
Jan 2017

on these Syrians and the Israeli's let them in to treat their wounds even though the country they come from is still at war with Israel. Let's see if anyone here notices.

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