Gazan baby's life saved by Wolfson heart surgery

"The war in Gaza has not slowed down the work of Save a Child's Heart, the voluntary organization based at Holon's Wolfson Medical Center that has provided free cardiac surgery to over 600 Palestinians and nearly 2,000 others from around the world. A three-week-old baby named Jafar from Gaza underwent surgery on Sunday nine days ago, the day after Israel's air strikes on Gaza were launched. Dr. Lior Sasson, SACH's chief surgeon, has done so many operations in recent weeks that he can hardly keep track. Jafar, he said, would almost surely have died quickly after birth because he was born with a severe congenital heart defect, the transposition of the great arteries" - Jerusalem Press