What a great story! When I read this, I just thought, maybe people really can co-exist, especially in such a tense place as Israel.

Despite recent tension and fighting within Israeli borders, three young girls from the Gaza Strip received a miracle, as heart surgeons from both Israel and Palestine collaborated to perform life-saving surgeries for each of them on Wednesday. The girls (8 months, 4 and 7 years-old), were in immediate danger if these operations would not have been performed.

"The operations were successful and the girls are doing well, doctors said." "We ignore all the politics and we are on great terms with the doctors in Gaza, despite violence and wars," said Dr. Akiva Tamir. Dr. Tamir is head of cardiology at Wolfson Hospital near Tel Aviv and he performed the operations with Dr. Rula Awwad, a Palestinian surgeon from the West Bank.

The doctors belong to an Israeli humanitarian group called Save A Child’s Heart, which treats children suffering from heart problems in conflict zones or areas where medical facilities are not up to par. Tamir said the program has treated 250 children from Gaza in the past year. Since its founding in 1996, Save A Child’s Heart has treated 900 children from Gaza and more than 1,000 from Iraq and other Arab states that have no relations with Israel.