For a moment, Yoel Har-Even was distracted. We were speaking via Zoom from Israel’s Shining Star field hospital in western Ukraine, and a siren began to wail outside.

“Usually when we hear a siren, we need to run to the shelter in a school for about 15 minutes,” said Har-Even, who is in charge of the remarkable 66-bed hospital in Mostyska, inside Ukraine’s war torn borders.

The lateness of the hour, however, meant that the 70 Israeli volunteers manning the field hospital were already safe inside the building, so he stayed on the line.

“Mostly they are attacking military and not civilian targets,” he said, adding that he hadn’t heard any explosions.

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