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Wounded Israeli Troops Yearn to Be in the Fight
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One soldier's parents brought him a cake to celebrate his birthday. Two nights before, the soldier, Itzik, had been hit in the shoulder by shrapnel. Although he was feeling better Monday, he was in no mood for a party.
"I can't celebrate," he said from his hospital bed, waving the cake away. "My friends are still inside."
Weitzman, who had a piece of shrapnel removed from the surface of his heart, was alert and sitting up Monday afternoon. Heart monitors dotted his chest, and an Israeli flag hung prominently next to his bed. "He had shrapnel all over his body. One piece was a millimeter from his main artery," said his brother, Chaim. "It's a miracle."
The doctor who performed the surgery, Gideon Sahar, said that Weitzman was lucky to have survived and that quick work by medical units in the field probably saved him.
Sahar worked in a medical unit during the first Lebanon war in the early 1980s, treating patients as they flew by helicopter over the border and back to hospitals in Israel. His daughter serves in the army today.
With the rockets still flying from Gaza, he worries about his grandchildren.
"It's terrible to live like this. Our parents fought. I fought. Our children fight," he said. "When it's generation after generation, it's like a curse."
