Successful surgery to replant amputated palm of Syrian child

Two Syrian doctors made a successful surgical operation by re-planting a child's palm that was mostly amputated in Bab al-Hawa Hospital near the Turkish borders.

Dr. Joma’a Abi Ras and Dr. Mohamed Al-Jawwash have achieved a very critical surgery when an 8-year-old child was injured by a bombing fragment during the shelling of forces loyal to Basher al-Assad on Sarakeb town, north Syria.

The arteries and veins were successfully reconnected.

Another surgery will be set very shortly to reconnect the tendons and nerves of the child.  

More than 11,000 children have been killed in Syria since the conflict there began over two and a half years ago, many of them summarily executed or targeted by snipers, a UK-based think tank said in a report published on Sunday.

The Oxford Research Group study, which called on all sides in the conflict to stop targeting children, said seven out of 10 of the children killed in the war had lost their lives in shell fire, by aerial bombardment or by improvised explosive devices.

One in four children had been killed by small arms fire, with almost 800 executed and almost 400 targeted by snipers. Over 100, including some of infant age, were reported to have been tortured.

The United Nations puts the overall death toll in Syria at more than 100,000 dead.

"One of the most disturbing things about this is that the evidence shows that children being killed by bullets are being deliberately killed," said Hamit Dardagan, one of the report's co-authors. "They are not being killed in cross-fire," according to Reuters.

Bab al-Hawa Hospital situated in rebel-held areas and it considered as most active hospital during the 32-month-old war.