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Augusta Victoria Hospital caring for injured in Gaza conflict

Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and LWF President Munib A. Younan visited injured from the Gaza conflict brought to be treated in East Jerusalem hospitals. LWF run Augusta Victoria Hospital is among those receiving the injured. The hospital also dispatched a medical team to the Gaza strip over the weekend.  

3 August 2014

Bishop Younan greets Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III at St. Joseph's Hospital in Jerusalem. Photo: D. Hudson/ELCJHL

Dr. Tawfiq Nassar of the Augusta Victoria Hospital greets the delegation. Photo: D. Hudson/ELCJHL

Director of St. Joseph's Hospital Jamil Koussa discusses the case of a patient from Gaza in the Intensive Care Unit. Photo: D. Hudson/ELCJHL

Bishop Munib Younan speaks to an injured boy in the Intensive Care Unit of St. Joseph's Hospital. Photo: D. Hudson/ELCJHL

Medical team from the Augusta Victoria Hospital preparing to leave for the Gaza Strip. Photo: LWF Jerusalem/M. Brown

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