{"id":3691,"date":"2013-11-04T06:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T13:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2013-11-04T06:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T13:27:39","slug":"this-news-one-usually-does-not-read-in-most-news-outlets-in-first-syrian-woman-gives-birth-in-israeli-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"This News one usually does not read in most News Outlets: In first, Syrian woman gives birth in Israeli hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the first time, a Syrian refugee gave birth in an Israeli hospital on Sunday.\u00a0The woman, a 20-year-old nurse, came across the border alone, and gave birth to a healthy 3.2-kilogram (7 pound) boy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When the woman felt the baby coming, she was stuck in her home near Quneitra, with no access to a Syrian hospital and no medical care in the town. So she decided to take a huge risk for the sake of her unborn child, and made her way to the border.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feared for the baby\u2019s welfare if the birth went through complications at home,\u201d she said. \u201cTo my joy, the Israeli army saw I was suffering from terrible pains, and picked me up and transferred me to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the IDF found her on the border Saturday night, she was already in labor. They brought her to Ziv Medical Center in Safed, where many of the dozens of Syrian medical cases brought into Israel are treated.<\/p>\n

Since she came across the border with no family, midwives at the hospital took their place, holding her hands and coaching her through the birth. \u201cAt the end of the birth she thanked everyone and hugged everyone with joy,\u201d one of the nurses said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team of Israeli midwives and doctors treated me with sensitivity and respect,\u201d noted the mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe received warm and embracing care from the entire birthing staff,\u201d said Mira Eli, a nurse in the birthing room at Ziv, \u201cjust like every mother needs \u2014 and even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

After surviving on a rice diet for the past two months, the mother received meat and vegetables at the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m in an enemy country; everyone is helping me and caring for me,\u201d she told Channel 2. (Syria and Israel are formally at war, and have fought three major conflicts \u2014 in 1948, 1967 and 1973.)<\/p>\n

Since February, over 250 Syrian civilians have been admitted to Israeli hospitals for treatment. Many less serious cases have been treated by Israeli medical teams at an IDF field hospital in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

Israel has said it offers the care as an act of humanitarian assistance, while endeavoring to stay out of the Syrian war, in which an estimated 100,000 people have been killed since March 2011.<\/p>\n

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