An Israeli hospital is treating people wounded in Syria , where civil war has killed thousands and wounded thousands more . Ziv Medical Center in Safed , Israel , `` can not confirm '' whether the seven Syrians being treated are from the Syrian opposition or the military , said Dr. Oscar Embon , the hospital 's director . `` We treat patients regardless of religion , race , nationality and give the best care we can provide , '' Embon said . The Syrians are under guard for their own protection , he said . Israeli doctors frequently treat people from groups with which Israel has tensions , or even is engaged in conflict . In November , CNN visited an Israeli hospital treating an Israeli child and a Palestinian child , both wounded in warfare between Israel and militants in Gaza . Ziv Medical Center treated soldiers and a Syrian pilot during the 1982 Israeli war with Lebanon , hospital officials said . It 's unclear what will ultimately happen to the seven Syrians . After treatment at the hospital , they will be returned to the Israeli military , which brought them in for help , and they will need rehabilitation , Embon said . An Israeli military spokeswoman told CNN the Israel Defense Forces `` provided medical care to seven injured Syrians adjacent to the security fence between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights , and the wounded were transferred to an Israeli hospital for further treatment . '' Embon said one of the seven patients is in severe condition in an intensive care unit . He was to undergo surgery Sunday . The other six have moderate injuries and had surgery Saturday night . Five have bone fractures in extremities ; the sixth has a vascular injury . The six are in stable condition . Some will need further operations , Embon said . All will be at the hospital for at least a week ; some will need to remain longer , Embon said . He did not know whether other Syrians will be brought for treatment . Ziv Medical Center is in northern Israel , close to the Syrian border . `` We are used to treating trauma patients , '' said Embon . `` There is a geographical and professional reason for that . '' Many hospital employees speak Arabic , he added . Asked how the Syrians are responding to being treated in an Israeli hospital , Embon said only that their reaction `` is reasonable . '' Last month , Israeli fighter jets struck a Syrian convoy suspected of moving weapons to the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon , a senior U.S. official said . Israeli Defense MInister Ehud Barak did not explicitly confirm or deny such an attack , but called the event `` another proof that when we say something we mean it -- we say that we do n't think that it should be allowable to bring advanced weapon systems into Lebanon . '' Syria 's government-run news agency SANA called Barak 's statement `` an overt hint that the aggression came in implementation of the Israeli threats uttered lately under the pretext of targeting ' a weapons shipment . ' '' The death toll in the Syrian war is probably approaching 70,000 , U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said last week . At least 61 `` martyrs '' were killed Sunday , the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said . Syria , which blames the violence on `` terrorists , '' said Sunday its military `` inflicted heavy losses '' on them . The United Nations and numerous countries , including the United States , have called on Syria to end its brutal crackdown on opposition fighters and called on all sides to halt the violence .
Israeli hospital is treating seven people injured in the civil war in Syria . The hospital `` can not confirm '' whether they are from the opposition or the military . They are under guard for protection . At least 61 people were killed Sunday in the war in Syria , according to an opposition group .