By Boaz Arad | Communication officer
This morning, an 8 month old baby that had drowned yesterday on the way to Lesvos was buried on the island, far away from home. Or at least, the home his parents once had.
Once the funeral was over, IsraAID volunteers Dr. Iris Adler and Malek Abu Grara, who had spent the night with the grieving mother, went straight back to work - giving medical aid to the hundreds of refugees arriving each day on the beach.
And as fate would have it, a day that had started with sorrow and grief ended with joy and happiness - as a Syrian mother gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on the beach, right after getting off the boat she came on.
Adler and Abu-Grara treated both the new mother and the baby on the beach, and made sure an ambulance arrives to take them both to the hospital. Welcome to the world, little one. You're safe now.
2 days ago a young Syrian man, who arrived this week in Lesvos on a rubber boat from Turkey, was totally overwhelmed with emotions when Iris Adler, an Israeli doctor volunteering on the beach with IsraAID's medical team, offered him to bandage an old wound in his leg. "This is the second time that Israelis come to my help", he said. "Three years ago I was injured fighting against Bashar Al-Assad's forces on the border with the Golan heights, and was taken into Israel by IDF soldiers for an operation in a hospital in Haifa. Thank you again".
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