CHRIS MITCHELL: It's called
Operation Good Neighbor.
In March 2013,
approximately two years
after the fighting
in Syria started,
one night, seven wounded
Syrians came to our border
seeking for help.
A decision was made by
the Israeli commanders
and government to allow
them to enter the country
and to give them full
medical treatment.
Since then many, many other
wounded Syrians followed.
CHRIS MITCHELL: We're about
600 feet or 200 meters
from the international border.
Not far from here is
where the Syrian refugees
have been coming in to receive
medical help from Israel.
It's a well-known
fact that in Syria,
the medical infrastructures
are not functioning.
Approximately 70% of the
doctors fled the country.
One year ago, we decided
to expand our cooperation
and help even further by
starting Operation Good
Neighbor.
CHRIS MITCHELL: CBN News
received a special look
at the many ways the IDF is
helping along the border.
Dr. Noam Fink is
chief medical officer
in the Northern Command.
We started bringing
in sick Syrians.
Most of them are sick
children with neglected
medical diseases.
We have taken them in to our
hospitals, to our clinics.
Almost every night, wounded
Syrians come into Israel
and get the best treatment,
the same treatment
we give our citizens.
CHRIS MITCHELL: In
the past four years,
Israel has helped more
than 4,000 Syrians, many
taken to Israeli hospitals.
And the aid didn't stop there.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
E: In the last year,
we understand that the
Syrian population have
lack of many, many
things, infrastructure
as water and electricity,
lack of health care,
medicine, equipment,
and doctors.
CHRIS MITCHELL: We've
protected the identity
of Lieutenant Colonel E,
because of his involvement
in the project.
During the last year, we
have established this project,
this humanitarian aid project.
CHRIS MITCHELL: Many of the
goods are donated by NGOs.
They provide medicine, basic
foods, and fuel for generators.
They've even helped
establish two medical clinics
across the border
for simpler cases.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
E: Those people--
as I told-- that were
educated to hate us,
they're telling
us today they are
very grateful to
the state of Israel.
CHRIS MITCHELL: The IDF
hopes the humanitarian effort
will bear good fruit.
We are believing that this
humanitarian aid is our duty
to help all our neighbors.
And we are believe that by
doing this humanitarian aid,
we are making good
neighbors, and by this we
can secure the
Israel-Syrian border.
CHRIS MITCHELL: Chris
Mitchell, CBN News,
on the Golan Heights,
Israel-Syrian border.
