A view of the entrance of the shock and trauma unit at the emergency medicine center of Israeli Hadassah University Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem in 2020. A 12-year-old boy was airlifted to the medical center from the Jordan Valley, for the life saving surgery in which the doctors estimated his chances of survival to be 50-50.AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES.
JERUSALEM — A 12-year-old Palestinian Arab boy’s head was internally severed from his neck after he was hit by a car while cycling last month.
An injury of this type is almost always fatal. Yet Suleiman Hassan was discharged from Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center this week, his life saved by complicated emergency surgery followed by intensive care.
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