By Andrew Tobin/(JTA) — It’s happened thousands of times, but this time it was caught on tape (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86qOE7skrUg). The Israeli army on Thursday provided medical treatment to seven Syrians wounded in their country’s civil war. The man, four women and two children were wounded by shrapnel from explosions in villages near the Syrian border with Israel. Among them was a two-year-old girl who sustained a severe head injury. “We received reports that injured Syrians were arriving at the border and we began to prepare,” said Lt. Omri Caspi, a medical operations office in the Golan Division, according to a statement by the army. “The moment we began to understand the gravity of the situation, that we were going to be treating seven patients in critical need of care – patients with complicated and severe injuries – we decided to call up additional teams in the area.”

Since early 2013, the Israeli army has treated some 3,000 wounded Syrians who have made it to the border in the Golan Heights, including hundreds of infants and children. Generally working at night, soldiers have provided initial, often life-saving care, and then evacuated the wounded to nearby hospitals.

During a visit to the Lebanese border Sunday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told Givati Brigade soldiers that the civil war in Syria “demands the attention of the whole world” and involves “things that humanity cannot comprehend.” He said the government would consider doing more to “alleviate the suffering of innocent people.” Later, Rivlin visited the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, which has treated most of the wounded Syrians. He spoke with medical staff and their Syrian patients.

“Your business is pride,” Rivlin told the staff. “Israeli pride, Jewish pride. It is proof that the world is built on kindness. Israel will continue to do everything it can with responsibility and wisdom, in order to alleviate the suffering of the people who experience daily slaughter here on the other side of the border.”

Israel has maintained a policy of nonintervention in the Syrian civil war, which has raged for six years and killed some 400,000 people and displacing more than 11 million. Since Tuesday, Israelis have donated hundreds of thousands of shekels to help Syrian refugees.