An interesting, encouraging and inspiring article over at Reuters:
“He has a pulse!” the Palestinian medic shouted above the sound of sirens and explosions as he and three colleagues tended to the motionless figure on the floor.
The exercise, in an Israeli hospital, was a dress rehearsal for more than a dozen medics and doctors from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, who often treat casualties of Israeli military operations against militants.
The emergency medicine course is sponsored by the Israeli Physicians for Human Rights, a private group dedicated to professional cooperation with Palestinian doctors. Funding comes mainly from international donors.
“It is excellent that people from the Palestinian territories come to participate in an Israeli course,” said Marwan Baqer, who heads a team of 120 ambulance workers back in Gaza. “We do not care who is conducting the course.”
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“We facilitate everything, their travel papers. The request procedure is very difficult and unpredictable and dependent on the civil administration,” Bendel said, referring to an Israeli military-run authority that issues permits.
Now this is a wonderful initiative.
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