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Israelis treating Syria’s wounded confront complex injuries, cultural gaps

A medical worker at a field hospital on the Golan Heights treats an individual wounded in Syria’s civil war, February 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)

When an Israeli army ambulance brought an injured Syrian man to Ziv Medical Center in this northern Israeli city two months ago, the doctors didn’t know where exactly he was from. They saw that his leg had been amputated, and based on his own fragmented account and the physical… Read more »