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Mikey, a brave Alsatian war dog in the elite Israeli Oketz canine unit, who was blown up by a Hamas grenade in November, is back on her feet after becoming the first dog in the world to undergo oxygen therapy, the Daily Mail reports.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Mikey is an explosives sniffer dog trained to scan buildings for traps before Israeli forces enter. The evil Hamas terrorists frequently booby-trap buildings<\/a> in Gaza, recently even with child\u2019s voices, dolls and backpacks, as Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported. 8 IDF soldiers<\/a> of the Golani Brigade were killed by an IED<\/a> in the Kasbah of Shuja\u2019iyya neighborhood Dec. 13.<\/p>\n Mikey was weeks away from retirement when a Hamas terrorist threw a grenade which blew up in her face. She suffered catastrophic injuries to her face, body and legs, the Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n The explosives specialist was evacuated to Israel November 12 and vets battled to save her for weeks.<\/p>\n Mikey,Oketz combat dog, returned from the #Gaza<\/a> with a serious head injury. Shamir Hospital was asked if, for the first time in its history, it would agree to provide treatment in a pressure chamber to a dog, the hospital agreed to the challenge: \u201cWe thought about what we would pic.twitter.com\/3WqjFPO3uo<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Israel Kicks A** (@Israelkicksass) December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Despite operating to remove shrapnel in her eyes, ears, leg, abdomen and head, the outlook was bleak, the Daily Mail reports. Remnants of explosives in her brain meant the nine-year-old might never walk again. Israeli vets feared for her life.<\/p>\n With no options left, Mikey\u2019s superiors insisted she receive the best treatment possible and called Professor Shai Efrati at Shamir Medical Center near Tel Aviv, the world\u2019s leading Hyperbaric Medicine and Research facility, the Daily Mail reports.<\/p>\n Amazingly, after just a few weeks of treatment, the Alsatian is back on her feet.<\/p>\n Excl: \u2018I told them I do not treat dogs. Then they explained to me this is a special dog that was injured in Gaza. I said, ok, now we are listening.\u2019 Special forces Alsatian Mikey, blown up by Hamas, becomes first dog in the world to undergo oxygen therapy https:\/\/t.co\/ImN5Qvdszp<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Andy Jehring (@AndyJehring) December 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cThis is even better than we thought,\u201d Professor Efrati told the Daily Mail. \u201cThe results are so amazing, it\u2019s like a fast forward with regard to the reaction to the treatment as what\u2019s happening in humans.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn each session that she gets it\u2019s like five session in humans. It\u2019s amazing progress that she made.\u201d<\/p>\n Professor Efrati pioneered the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat blast wounds in soldiers, the Daily Mail reports.<\/p>\n However, he was hesitant to use it on an animal, the Mail writes.<\/p>\n \u201cI told them I do not treat dogs,\u201d he said. \u201cThey explained to me this is a special dog that was injured in Gaza serving Israel. I said, ok, now we are listening.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to give Mikey the best of the best treatment that we are given to any soldier that is injured during the battlefield, \u201c Efrati said. \u2018That\u2019s who we are in Israel, we want to give the best to our soldiers. And Mikey, she\u2019s one of our soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n Hyperbaric therapy works by flooding the blood with oxygen under pressure to bypass damaged blood vessels to induce the stem cells to grow, the Daily Mail reports.<\/p>\n Mikey receives bursts of 100 per cent oxygen through a face mask in a chamber that doubles the atmospheric pressure for two hours, six times a week.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen she came in, there was a real threat to her life,\u201c Professor Efrati told the Mail. \u201cShe is now better than even we thought she could be. It is just amazing to see.\u201d<\/p>\n Mikey served with the elite Israeli Oketz dog unit since she was a puppy.<\/p>\n\n Israel has one of the most sophisticated armies in the world, including the Oketz dog, with elite dog warriors trained to sniff out explosives, locate hidden threats and tunnel entrances, and track down and neutralize terrorists.<\/p>\n Highly-trained Belgian Malinois have been utilised by Israel\u2019s army for years \u2013 and now they are being deployed on the streets of Gaza and in Hamas\u2019<\/span>s\u00a0 notorious terror tunnels, Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n IDF<\/p>\n Tragically, one brave dog was killed by Hamas as he saved the lives of several commandos, alerting them to the terrorists\u2019 hiding place on October 7, the Mail wrote: Nero, one of the Oketz dogs which had joined Naval Commando 13 to hunt down Hamas infiltrators, was killed while tracking down terrorists.<\/p>\n \u201cA dog who was with one of our men went in to comb a house,’\u201d a Lieutenant Colonel told Israel Hayom<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cHe revealed the location of two terrorists, took a burst of gunfire from them, and was killed. That\u2019s how the men in the force realized that there were terrorists in the house, and human lives were saved.\u201d<\/p>\n IDF Oketz dog embedded in combat unit<\/p>\n \u201cThe troops fired at the terrorists and brought in engineering machinery that brought the house down on them.\u00a0Lots of commanders from Naval Commando 13 contacted me and told me that the dog had saved their lives, \u201d the commander told Israel Hayom.<\/p>\n Any dog in the unit killed in the line of duty<\/span> is entitled to a full military funeral.<\/p>\n IDF Oketz dog training<\/em><\/p>\n In another case, Oketz forces joined up with the Duvdevan commando unit to scour open territory in the Be\u2019ersheva area.<\/p>\n It managed to locate a terrorist who had set up an ambush for the force in a grove of bushes just a few dozen meters ahead of its unit.<\/p>\n The dog bit the terrorist, the commander said, allowing the Duvdevan force to arrest him.<\/p>\n Following the arrest, he added, \u201cit turned out that he was a terrorist from Hamas\u2019s underground system, and in his interrogation he gave very important information for the continuation of the fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Good Boy! Watch IDF K-9 Dog Soldier Sniff out Hamas Terror Tunnel<\/a><\/p>\n Muslims Worldwide Throw a Fit over Israeli Bomb-Sniffing Dog Named after Mohammed\u2019s Child Bride Aisha<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMy Dog Saved My Life\u201d: IDF Dogs Clear 50 Hamas Booby-Traps in Gaza (VIDEO)<\/a><\/p>\n The post Israeli Hero Bomb Dog Makes Miracle Recovery After Being Blown up by a Hamas Terrorist\u2019s Grenade<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Mikey, a brave Alsatian war dog in the elite Israeli Oketz canine unit, who was blown up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n