IDF uses revolutionary treatment to save life of Palestinian stabber
Israeli army medics spared no effort or expense in order to save the life of one of two Palestinians who stabbed a Border Police officer at Tapuah Junction in the West Bank on Friday, a medical officer who was on the scene said Sunday.
While one of the attackers had already died by the time his team arrived, one of Lt. Moshe Cohen’s paramedics used an expensive, cutting-edge plasma treatment to keep the second man alive when he was on his “last breaths,” Cohen said. Cohen, 23, from Beersheba in southern Israel, completed his medical degree at Ben Gurion University in emergency medicine before enlisting in the IDF. He now serves as a regional medical officer in the Samaria Brigade, which is responsible for the city of Nablus and the surrounding area.
On Friday morning, Cohen’s team received a call that one soldier had been injured and two Palestinians had been killed during a stabbing incident approximately five kilometers (three miles) away from their base near Tapuah Junction. However, that report proved to be wrong twice over, Cohen told The Times of Israel. For one, though one of the attackers did succeed in stabbing a Border Police officer, the officer was uninjured, as the knife did not penetrate his protective ceramic vest. In addition, though one of the attackers was indeed shot dead on the scene by a female officer, the second was still alive.
“When we arrived we split into two teams: My team went to the soldier, and the second team went about two meters (6 feet) away to where the terrorists were. I saw that the soldier had not actually been injured, that the knife had hit the ceramic vest. I told him, ‘We’ll come back, but for now you are not an emergency,'” Cohen said....
http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-spared-no-expense-treating-palestinian-stabber/
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