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this injuries is very severe injuries
what do you think would happen to them
if they came back and people found out
they were in Israel they may may be
killed
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we're here in the Galilee in Israel
we're on our way to a hospital and uh
the interesting thing about this
hospital is that they're actually
treating casualties from the war in
Syria on this side of the border and
that's pretty unprecedented because you
wouldn't expect people from Syria a
sworn enemy of Israel to want to come
here to get medical treatment but the
Israelis have opened their borders and
they've actually uh allowed quite a few
people to get treatment so hopefully
we're going to get to meet some of
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them Dr Amar Hussein oversees the
efforts to treat syrians here at ziv
Medical
Center is it dangerous for them to try
to come here to seek
treatment yes it's very dangerous
because H there is don't want people
come to
Israel what do you think would happen to
them if they came back and people found
out they were in Israel they may may be
killed but I understand that some of
your patients are actually fighters from
the various factions at the past the
first you want to see also the emergency
sure you can they've actually treated
420 syrians in this Hospital alone but
they've treated
1,300 overall uh since the start of the
conflict in Syria here in Israel almost
all have been men so it's not a stretch
to assume that men any are Fighters we
were curious if any belonged to the
al-Qaeda Affiliated Rebel group jabat
al-nusra that Now controls the other
side of the Border but Dr Hussein tells
us this would be impossible the Army
here changed the policy and don't bring
again Fighters only only civilian people
at the first time yes there was Fighters
against Assad there for the revolution
but after no Fighters only civilian
people you can see
we can see very old people not fighter I
noticed in your statistics that 90% of
the people you treat here are men are
you sure none none of them are Fighters
I don't know I don't know this question
clearly made the doctor uncomfortable
maybe justifiably so the Israeli public
might not be too keen on the fact that
Israeli doctors are helping fighters who
hate Israel only a bit less than they
hate the Syrian
regime in Syria's civil War today more
than a thousand factions are fighting
each other and the regime for control of
the country to date more than 190,000
have died in the conflict and even the
tallest fences can't stop ripples
crossing the
borders have you ever seen uh casualties
like this in your experience no no but I
mean you treat soldiers from uh I from
the leanon
to we treat also civilian israelian C
from theet Bala yes with read also but
like this injuries is very severe
injuries this patient is a recent
arrival no one knows much about him
because he's been unconscious since he
got here has vascular injuries abdominal
injuries fracture of the bones the large
bones what do you think caused his
injuries I think it's more
blasting and so he hasn't been able to
say anything since he got here he
doesn't even know he's in Israel he
doesn't know that he in Israel
yes we head into another room where
three wounded Syrian Fighters have been
convalescing since July two quickly
covered their faces with blankets but we
could see the characteristic long hair
of islamist
Fighters outside an IDF Soldier remains
on guard 24 hours a day one of the three
agreed to talk to us 25-year-old
Muhammad who says he's a fighter for the
free Syrian Army
a collection of Western backed Rebel
groups he said Rebels work through a
neutral intermediary to deliver him to
IDF
soldiers if people find out that you've
been to Israel do you think they might
suspect you of being a spy or something
when your treatment is finished do you
hope to go back to fight against Assad
again
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who were you fighting when you got
injured was it or was it the army
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that was a big one beautiful scenery
huh it's a weird jua position being over
here so close to it and uh you know
pretending that you're just on a nature
trail you know some tourists come
because of that you get like a people
that want to see that you don't have a
lot of spots when you can be like
observers from the side to drink coffee
to sit by and see like a waron