A 12-year-old boy from Majdal Shams, injured by a Hezbollah rocket, underwent successful surgery at Galilee Medical Center. Dr. Alon Rod, a spine surgery specialist, removed an 18 mm shrapnel piece from his spine, which narrowly missed the spinal cord.

Dr. Nimrod Rahmimov, head of the Orthopedic B and Spine Surgery Department, stated that the shrapnel was embedded in the back part of the vertebra and fractured it but miraculously did not hit the spinal cord.

The boy was transferred to Galilee Medical Center from Ziv Hospital and is in stable condition. He has been returned to the Pediatric Surgery Department and is expected to be discharged in the coming days.