Find out more about the London Review of Books app Newsletter Preferences This site requires the use of Javascript to provide the best possible experience Please change your browser settings to allow Javascript content to run Israel's "Shining Star" field hospital in Mostyska Israeli medical teams at the field hospital operated by Sheba Medical Center in the town of Mostyska near the Polish border were finalizing their preparations to treat victims of the war in Ukraine over the weekend Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram The "Kohav Meir" (Shining Star) field hospital is expected to begin operations on Tuesday On Saturday morning an Israeli flag was hoisted alongside a Ukrainian one outside the elementary school whose grounds will be home to the NIS 21 million ($6.5 million) facility The Israeli hospital has already brought in 17 tons of equipment from Israel The Shining Star facility is a collaborative effort of the Health Ministry It is being funded by the Israeli government the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Ten outdoor tents were erected by Ukrainian teams and Israeli supervisors last week while crews from Sheba Medical Center now have until Tuesday to build the hospital's patient care who was born in Ukraine and now works for Sheba Medical Center's logistics department helping get the project off the ground in his country of birth has been a surreal "It's a bit overwhelming; I went into the school and it was very emotional because even though 40 years ago I went to school somewhere else it was similar to this school and the children's chairs To come here and help the Ukrainian nation I wanted to come and give a hand," he said "Everything will be ready in time when the main medical team of doctors and nurses arrive," Tsiboulski added The field hospital is expected to serve Ukrainian refugees and locals and train local medical teams in telemedicine and field medical care according to the head of Israel's mission to Ukraine the deputy head of Sheba's logistics department said the team that will arrive in Poland on Monday will consist of 80 medical staff that will cross into Ukraine and begin work as early as Tuesday The Shining Star field hospital currently intends to operate for at least one month with the medical teams being rotated every two weeks the facility's medical staff – many of whom are Russian and Ukrainian speakers – come from across the Israeli medical system "It's incredibly emotional to run the whole logistics side of things including UPS [who transported the medical equipment] It challenged everyone to give everything and raise a hospital that will be one of the best in the world The Israeli operation expects to be busy "within a few days," said Katzora but we know a lot are interested in it," Katzora said "I think two to three days after we start to work Magen David Adom is using its mass-casualty experience as Israel's national paramedic organization and its standing as a leading member in the International Committee of the Red Cross to help save lives in Ukraine we're working to help refugees and the wounded as much as possible and this is how we will continue to act," said MDA director-general Eli Bin MDA has flown four armored ambulances to Poland which will be driven into Ukraine to evacuate the wounded from the most volatile areas Russian and Ukrainian-speaking paramedics are being sent to Moldova to staff a triage clinic as well as assist injured and ill Ukrainians at the border And as a result of an assessment mission to Poland MDA will also establish a field clinic there Felix Lotan was one of the paramedics sent to assess the refugee situation in Poland "Most of the refugees are women and children and they have a deep sadness and fear of being left widows." Manager of MDA's international disaster department "The International Red Cross has asked us to assist the German Red Cross in evacuating patients from Odessa to Moldova," said Uri Shacham deputy director-general and chief of staff for MDA who is also its liaison to the Red Cross movement "Our paramedics are also part of Israel's delegation to establish a field hospital in western Ukraine."   Subscribe to Israel Hayom's daily newsletter and never miss our top stories MDA is responding to the needs of the thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have arrived was established to help them locate missing relatives provide medical assistance and navigate the social and governmental agencies for needed services "We are working vigorously to ease the trauma experienced by the refugees who have been torn from their homes and families," said Bin "We hope to reunite them with loved ones and provide them with some comfort and closure." MDA has loaned a Mobile Command and Control Center to Kfar Chabad in Israel to help coordinate evacuation plans and provide assistance to Jews in Ukraine "Whether the innocent are attacked in Israel or Ukraine Magen David Adom is there to save lives," said Catherine Reed "Our Ukraine Emergency Appeal is supporting EMTs and paramedics working near the conflict vehicles and services for Ukrainians seeking temporary or permanent refuge in Israel." Donations can be made here JNS.org contributed to this report Residents of Kyiv and eastern Ukraine awoke to air raid alerts following the end of a one-day Easter ceasefire declared.. 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All rights reserved Medical equipment waits for patients at a field hospital deployed Israel 2022 | Photo: Reuters/Pavlo Palamarchuk The "Kohav Meir" (Shining Star) field hospital in the town of Mostyska near the Polish border was set to begin accepting patients Tuesday with an inauguration ceremony also scheduled for that day Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram   Israel is the first country to set up a field hospital inside Ukraine The Shining Star facility is a collaborative effort of the Health and Foreign Ministries the latter of which is operating the hospital With the field hospital situated in a small and fairly remote town not many Ukrainians are expected to arrive in the early days refugees fleeing the country for Poland will likely prefer to receive medical treatment there rather than wait in Ukraine for treatment which is expected to treat dozens of patients each day The plan is for the hospital to operate for at least a month with the staff being replaced in another two weeks Doctors working at the field hospital will also train local teams who heads the Israeli delegation to the field hospital said delegation members "know our job is to reach out and that we must not sit idly by everything so that we can provide service to the hundreds of thousands of new refugees making their way to the country's borders." "We've had full and appreciable cooperation on the part of local authorities and we truly believe our hospital will provide a glimmer of hope." said they retook a strategically important suburb of the capital early Tuesday while Russia's attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol raged unabated with fleeing civilians describing relentless bombardments and corpses lying in the streets Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv and black smoke rose from a spot in the north Intensified artillery fire could be heard from the northwest where Russia has sought to encircle and capture several suburban areas of the capital Residents sheltered at home or underground under a 35-hour curfew imposed by city authorities that runs to Wednesday morning While Russian forces carried on with the siege of Mariupol after the southern port city's defenders refused demands to surrender the Kremlin's ground offensive in other parts of the country advanced slowly or not at all knocked back by lethal hit-and-run attacks by the Ukrainians Ukrainian troops forced Russian forces out of the Kyiv suburb of Makariv after a fierce battle The regained territory allowed Ukrainian forces to retake control of a key highway and block Russian troops from surrounding Kyiv from the northwest Yet the Defense Ministry said Russian forces battling toward Kyiv were able to partially take other northwest suburbs some of which had been under attack almost since Russia's military invaded late last month Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces are increasingly concentrating their air power and artillery on Ukraine's cities and the civilians living there killing uncounted numbers and sending millions fleeing A senior US defense official said Russia had increased air sorties over the past two days carrying out as many as 300 in the past 24 hours and fired more than 1,100 missiles into Ukraine since the invasion began who is heading to Europe later in the week to meet with allies suggested Monday evening that worse may be still to come "Putin's back is against the wall," Biden said "He wasn't anticipating the extent or the strength of our unity the greater the severity of the tactics he may employ." Biden reiterated accusations that Putin is considering resorting to using chemical weapons Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed those who have fought back against Russia "There is no need to organize resistance," Zelenskyy said "Resistance for Ukrainians is part of their soul." Talks between Russia and Ukraine have continued by video but failed to bridge the chasm between the two sides. Zelenskyy told Ukrainian television late Monday that he would be prepared to consider waiving any North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership bid by Ukraine — a key Russian demand — in exchange for a cease-fire Zelenskyy also suggested Kyiv would be open to future discussions on the status of Crimea and the regions of the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists But he said that was a topic for another time Zelenskyy plans to speak to Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday part of a series of addresses to foreign legislatures as he seeks to drum up support movement restricted and many residents in hiding the fate of those inside an art school flattened on Sunday and a theater that was blown apart four days earlier was unclear More than 1,300 people were believed to be sheltering in the theater and 400 were estimated to have been in the art school Perched on the Sea of Azov, Mariupol is a crucial port for Ukraine and lies along a stretch of territory between Russia and Crimea it is a key target that has been besieged for more than three weeks and has seen some of the worst suffering of the war It is not clear how close its capture might be Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that their forces were still defending the city and had destroyed a Russian patrol boat and electronic warfare complex Moscow had offered safe passage out of Mariupol — one corridor leading east to Russia another going west to other parts of Ukraine — in return for the city's surrender before daybreak Monday Ukraine flatly rejected the offer well before the deadline Mariupol had a pre-war population of about 430,000. Around a quarter were believed to have left in the opening days of the war, and tens of thousands escaped over the past week by way of the humanitarian corridors Other attempts have been thwarted by the fighting Mariupol officials said on March 15 that at least 2,300 people had died in the siege There has been no official estimate since then but the number is feared to be far higher after six more days of bombardment The assault has cut off Mariupol's electricity and food supplies and severed communication with the outside world plunging residents into a fight for survival Fresh commercial satellite images showed smoke rising from buildings newly hit by Russian artillery Those who have made it out of Mariupol told of a devastated city "There are no buildings there anymore," said 77-year-old Maria Fiodorova who crossed the border to Poland on Monday after five days of travel who fled Mariupol for the western Ukrainian city of Lviv A long line of vehicles stood on a road in Bezimenne as residents of the besieged city sought shelter at a temporary camp set up by Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk region An estimated 5,000 people from Mariupol have taken refuge in the camp Many arrived in cars with signs that said "children" in Russian A woman who gave her name as Yulia said she and her family sought shelter in Bezimenne after a bombing destroyed six houses behind her home and left in 15 minutes because everything is destroyed there "They don't let us pass through everywhere − there are shootings." more than 8,000 people escaped to safer areas Monday through humanitarian corridors Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russian shelling of a corridor wounded four children on a route leading out of Mariupol Russia's invasion has driven nearly 3.5 million people from Ukraine The UN has confirmed over 900 civilian deaths but said the real toll is probably much higher but even conservative figures are in the low thousands Zelenskyy said on Monday his country would never bow to ultimatums from Russia and cities such as Kyiv and Kharkov would not accept Russian occupation 'Follow it and then we will end the war'," the Ukrainian leader said in an interview published by Ukrainian public broadcasting company Suspilne He further said any compromises reached with Russia to end the war would need to be voted on by Ukrainians in a referendum "The people will have to speak up and respond to this or that form of compromise And what they (the compromises) will be is the subject of our talks and understanding between Ukraine and Russia," he said in an interview published by Ukrainian public broadcasting company Suspilne Issues that could be raised in any referendum could concern territories occupied by Russian forces or security guarantees offered to Ukraine by countries in lieu of NATO membership Subscribe to Israel Hayom's daily newsletter and never miss our top stories The first issue of Israel Hayom appeared on July 30 Israel Hayom was founded on the belief that the Israeli public deserves better more balanced and more accurate journalism