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THIS IS ISRAEL: Israeli Doctors Perform Transplant To Save Palestinian Baby Using Israeli Child’s Heart

Hank Berrien

Despite the repellent claims of Palestinians in the past that Israel has targeted Palestinian children, the truth of Israeli compassion relentlessly finds its way to the world. A Palestinian baby in a Tel Aviv hospital is fighting for his life, but the only reason the baby is still alive is that an Israeli family that lost their one-year-old child the week before agreed to donate the child’s heart only hours before the Palestinian child became the recipient of a heart transplant, performed by Israeli doctors.

As The Times of Israel reports, Dr. David Mishaly, chief surgeon at Sheba’s Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery Unit, stated that this was the first time a Palestinian baby received a heart transplant from a Jewish child. Around three weeks ago, Musa’s health took a turn for the worse; his heart reached “end stage” failure.

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