Norwegian neuro surgeon consultant Ostein Nygaard (R) from the University of Trondheim reacts after .....
Norwegian neuro surgeon consultant Ostein Nygaard (R) from the University of Trondheim reacts after they fail to save the life of 11 year-old Palestinian boy Jehid Abu Shehmah during a brain operation at Gaza's main hospital 15 November,2000. Nygaard works with other Norwegian doctors as consultants to Palestinian brain surgeons and assists during operations in the hospital and in a field hospital. Jehid was shot through the head with a high velocity bullet by Israeli snipers wich caused a " brain contusion ", the medical term for a crushed brain. Doctors said there was no more hope for Jehid and would die in the next 24 hours. Palestinian hospital officials said some 7,000 Palestinians have been wounded in the violence, more than 40 percent of them under the age of 18 and at least 222 people, again most of them Palestinians, have been killed in the unrest.