Israel has revealed for the first time the extent and scope of the humanitarian aid it has been sending across the border to help alleviate the human suffering in war-torn Syria.
Since August 2016, the IDF has delivered 110 aid operations in support of Syrians caught up in the civil war, and the new internationally-run hospital is the latest effort to help.
According to the IDF, Operation Good Neighbor has provided medical treatment to more than 4,000 people, including hundreds of children. It transferred more than 450,000 liters of heating and cooking fuel as well as 40 tons of flour, 225 tons of food, 12,000 packages of baby formula, 1,800 packages of diapers, 12 tons of shoes and 55 tons of cold weather clothing, the Algemeiner reports.
An IDF spokesman said Israel’s armed forces had already supplied critical infrastructure relief to Syrians just north of the border.
“It all started over four years ago. An injured Syrian came to the border asking for medical help from the IDF. Back then, there was no policy, just a commander’s on-the-spot decision to provide care to an injured civilian,” the spokesman said.
Operation Good Neighbour follows on from another clandestine Israeli initiative that gathered over a hundred tons of winter supplies bound for Syrian refugees who had no idea that the donations were provided from the so-called enemy state next door.
As Breitbart Jerusalem reported, Operation Human Warmth was jointly organized by Zionist youth movement HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, Dror Israel and the Combat Genocide Association. It delivered relief supplies that were eventually handed over to another aid organizationto to distribute to the refugees.
In January, Breitbart Jerusalem reported that Israel is set to absorb more than 100 Syrian child refugees who have been orphaned as a result of the conflict.
Over 2,500 Syrians have been treated in Israeli hospitals since 2013, even though Syria and Israel have officially been in a state of war since 1948.
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