by Danny Brenner
With hospitals and clinics around her village destroyed, 29-year-old woman makes dangerous trek to Israeli border and is brought to hospital by IDF • She names her daughter Sarah in gratitude to Israel • "I'll never forget what you did here," she says.
The Syrian mother and her
newborn daughter, Sarah, in Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Monday
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Photo credit: Ziv Medical Center  |
A 29-year-old Syrian woman gave birth to a
healthy girl last weekend in Ziv Medical Center in Safed, and in
gratitude to the State of Israel, named the baby Sarah.
The woman came from a village around which
every hospital and clinic had been destroyed in the long civil war.
Nearing the end of her pregnancy, she made the dangerous trek to the
Israeli border, and was brought to the hospital by the Israel Defense
Forces, where she gave birth by caesarian section.
"When my husband heard I insisted on going to
the border to give birth in a hospital, he asked that if she was born
healthy, to give her a Jewish name in gratitude to Israel," she said.
The woman said she was grateful to the Israeli
army for bringing her to Ziv, and to the medical staff there who
delivered her baby. She asked to be allowed to return quickly to her
home and her relatives, despite the difficult conditions there caused by
the civil war and the winter weather.
"I must return home to my husband, daughter and parents. I am worried about them," she said.
The woman added: "I'll never forget what you did here
for my daughter Sarah and for me," she said. "When Sarah grows up enough
to understand, I'll tell her where she was born and why, out of all the
names in the world, we chose to call her Sarah."
Danny Brenner
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=39635
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