Two Premature Palestinian Babies Treated in Israeli Hospital Targeted by Terrorists
Two premature Palestinian babies treated at Barzilai Hospital
(Communicated by the Barzilai Medical Center Ashkelon’s spokesperson)
March 3, 2008
At the end of February, a Palestinian woman from Beit Lahiya gave birth to twins at the Barzilai Medical Centre in Ashkelon. The twins, born prematurely, weighed less than 1.5 kgs each. They were admitted to the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where they were treated by the medical team.
The first Hamas missiles began raining down on Ashkelon on Saturday (1 March) shortly after 5 a.m. When the Hamas shelling of Ashkelon started, the twins, a boy and girl, were still in the NICU. One of the Grad rockets fell a mere 50 meters from the hospital entrance. All the premature babies in the NICU unit, including the two Palestinian babies, were transferred to the hospital’s bomb shelter for fear that the hospital itself would receive a direct missile hit.
Ashkelon Hospital, established in 1961, and renamed the Barzilai Medical Center ten years later, serves the area stretching from Ashdod in the north to Sderot in the south and Kiryat Gat in the east.
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