Sister Gilbert Saliba, a member of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition, was photographed today by the Catholic News Service as she visited Nidal Alawi, 11, of Gaza in the intensive care unit of St. Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem.

The boy is one of 23 Gaza patients being treated at the hospital, which specializes in head and chest trauma wounds.

They were taken there following arrangements with the Israeli army.

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