Good news stories about Israel seldom get reported in the media. Yet hardly a day goes by when something positive happens that tells the true story of Israel. One such story is the heartwarming one of the child from gaza whose sight was restored in an Israeli hospital. It was first published in the Jerusalem Post, and I picked it up from Stuart Palmer’s excellent Hairfa Diary blog.
Gazan Child Healed in Haifa
This is what happened to Halla a little girl from the Gaza Strip who was brought to Carmel Medical Center in Haifa (just 5 mins down the road from where I live) at the age of ten months and blind from birth. Ophthalmologists at the hospital performed two operations one after the other, the first, to drain the fluid and the second and more complicated procedure, to implant microscopic tubes to maintain the drainage process.
The fairy tale ending – Halla can see, she reacts to her surroundings, she smiles, she laughs, she’s putting on weight and doing all the things that a ten month old baby should be doing. With all the expenses being met by the Peres Peace Center all her overjoyed parents need to do is take her back home.
This beats all the negative ideology being spewed out on the Gazans radio, TV and newspapers.