Israel to set up field hospital in Ukraine, says health minister

A woman stands in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A woman stands in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Israel is preparing to send a field hospital to Ukraine as part of its next humanitarian aid shipment to the embattled country, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz tells Reshet Bet radio.

Horowitz clarifies that the hospital will be managed and manned exclusively by civilians. “We do not intend to send soldiers to Ukraine,” Horowitz says.

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a press conference about COVID-19, on December 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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