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Hospital removes piece of shrapnel lodged in boy wounded in Majdal Shams attack
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A piece of shrapnel that was removed from a 12-year-old boy wounded in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Majdal Shams. (Courtesy/Galilee Medical Center)
Galilee Medical Center says that doctors removed an 18mm (.7″) piece of shrapnel from a 12-year-old boy injured in the deadly rocket attack on the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams over the weekend.
Dr. Alon Rod, a spine surgery specialist, removed the fragment. The boy is in stable condition.
“The large fragment stuck in the back of the vertebra and broke it, but miraculously did not damage the spinal cord itself,” says Dr. Nimrod Rahamimov, director of the department of orthopedics and spinal surgery.
The boy is being treated in the pediatric surgery department and is expected to be released home in the coming days.
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