"Healing Arrives Amid Middle East Conflict," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 26, 2007 by Christopher Quinn Behind the bad news coming out of the Middle East, there are brief flashes of hope, and this Georgian has a role in those. Donna Petrel spends part of her year at home near Dalton and the rest of it negotiating tricky passages between Iraq, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. She doesn't travel alone.

"The Iraqi Children that Fell In Love with Israel," Yediot Ahronot, July 20, 2005 by Reuven Weiss and Meir Turgeman  Their death was a question of time, their visit in the land saved their lives — five children from Iraq were successfully operated on in Israel in the framework of a special project — When a child is sick, this is beyond borders.

"Heart Reconciliation: A Young Iraqi Comes to Israel for Heart Surgery," Yediot Ahronot, January 20, 2005 by Rebeka Frilech   Until not long ago, no one would have come up with such a scenario: a youth from Iraq arrives in Israel to undergo an operation, correcting a heart defect from birth. But exactly this scenario happened in these past days at Schnieder Hospital in Petah Tikva.

"A Heart for Helping," Coeur d'Alene Press, Nov. 23, 2004, by Brian Walker  When it comes to helping others, there are no borders for Amy Newcomb."I believe that a sick Iraqi or Palestinian child is our child," Newcomb said. "We should always love our neighbor as ourselves and strive to reach out to people who need help, no matter where they are from or who they are."

"Baby's Plight Bridges Abyss," Chicago Tribune. December 5, 2003, by Joel Greenberg  The scene would have been unthinkable nine months ago.  Jassem Abdullah and Iman Majid, a couple from a village near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, sat in a waiting room at a hospital near Tel Aviv this week as their 2-week-old daughter, Bayan, recovered from a life-saving heart operation.

"Heart Rescue," ABC World News Tonight, November 28, 2003, by Hilary Brown
She is less than two weeks old. And she would almost certainly be dead today, without the help of an American humanitarian, a U.S. Army doctor, and an Israeli charity called Save a Child's Heart.

"A Tiny Symbol of Change for Iraq," Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2003, by Ken Ellingwood  Just over a week old, Bayan Jabbar is proof that some of the rules have changed since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The ailing Iraqi girl, born with a life-threatening heart defect, was recovering in an Israeli hospital today after emergency surgery Wednesday and a journey that would have been unthinkable under an Iraqi ruler who treated Israel as the most bitter of enemies.

"Good Samaritan Tangled in Red Tape," Christianity Today. December 9, 2002, by Elaine Ruth Fletcher  Jonathan Miles had been up since dawn. He had driven to the Gaza Strip and back in order to deliver a sack full of vital medicines to Palestinian children with metabolic disorders. The medicines were prescribed by an Israeli doctor and hand-mixed by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish pharmacy.

"Local Family Fights Terror One Baby At a Time," The Post Star, August 2002, by Thom Randall Philip and Martha Berg have moved to Jerusalem on a medical mission to save lives of critically ill Palestinian children -- by delivering them to Israeli doctors for treatment.

"A Bridge to Life," The Jerusalem Post. September 26, 2001, by Patricia Golan  Jonathan Miles is an American on a mission who helps bring desperately ill Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip to Israeli hospitals.