Jewish Nurse Melts Hearts After Breastfeeding Palestinian Baby in Israel (Photo)

A Jewish nurse has won hearts around the world after she was pictured breastfeeding a Palestinian boy whose mother was seriously injured in a car crash, according to Dailymail.

 

The heartwarming photo which has gone viral showed Ula Ostrowski-Zak caring for the infant, whose father died in the collision in Ein Kerem in central Israel. She tried for seven hours to get nine-month-old Yaman Abu Ramila to take milk from a bottle before deciding to feed him herself.

 

She said: 'His aunts were surprised that a Jew agreed to breastfeed him, but I told them that any mother would do it.

 

'I fed him five times. His aunts embraced me and thanked me. They were really surprised.'

 

After the crash, the young baby was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital following the crash with an armoured vehicle. After the heartwarming offer, thousands more offers to feed the young boy came flooding in after Ms Ostrowski-Zak posted a call for new mums online.

 

She said: 'Within two hours I received more than a thousand likes and responses from women who volunteered to help, women who were willing to travel even from Haifa (in northern Israel) to breastfeed him. 

'In between, I continued to try to expose the child to the bottle but without success.'

 

With Yaman's mother still seriously ill, his aunts are expected to care for him when he is discharged from hospital soon. One unnamed aunt said she would be able to make arrangements for the boy to be breastfed when she got home.