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Suicide bombing is all too common in the Middle East. Israel has lost hundreds of lives in suicide attacks, and in 2016 the newspapers were replete with reports of bombings in Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. In July 2016, we received our first patient from Syria who had been injured in an explosion from a suicide attack just meters away from him. He arrived in the trauma room in agonizing pain, his clothes burnt into his flesh, and his hand and face shattered by the blast.
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Solomonov, E., Braslavsky, A., Fuchs, D., Biswas, S. (2017). Savage War Injuries: The Alleviation of Suffering. In: Zarka, S., Lerner, A. (eds) Complicated War Trauma and Care of the Wounded . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53339-1_26
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