Tel Aviv ( CNN ) -- Four-year-old Yosef lies in a hospital bed with curiosity gleaming in his eyes as he listens to a family friend tell him the age-old story of Jonah and the whale . The young boy is surprisingly bright-eyed after the traumatic ordeal he 's endured as a result of the latest outbreak of warfare between Gaza and Israel . He and his parents were staying in an apartment in Kiryat Malachi in southern Israel when a rocket sailed over from Gaza and slammed into it , leaving a gaping hole in the building . The blast sheered off several of Yosef 's tiny fingers , badly wounded his father , and killed his mother , Mina Scharf , one of the first to die on the Israeli side of the border . Hamas leaders in Egypt for cease-fire talks involving Israel . Yosef learned about his mother from his father , Shmuel , who is recovering in the same hospital . `` He was saying , 'My mother is not here ; she 's with God . ' He knows it will be a hard time , '' his grandmother , Chaya Sarah Scharf , said . Hard is putting it mildly . Doctors at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer hospital re-attached four of his fingers , but in the end they had to re-amputate two of them . `` He lives in the South and there are rockets all the time in that area . Hamas does n't even think about where the rockets are going , '' his grandmother said . While nurses attended to Yosef in Room 12 , one room away nurses were attending to on another child with nearly identical wounds from the most recent chapter of this conflict . What sets them apart is that the second child is from Gaza . Eight-year-old Bisan al-Aghram lost three fingers when the war came to her home . `` I heard the sound of a missile that hit . I did n't even have time to ask what happened and then the second one ( hit ) , '' said her mother , Soad al-Aghram . When the dust cleared , she could see the bones of her childÂ¹s fingers in small pieces on the floor . The girl was taken to Gaza 's al-Shifa hospital , but it was too crowded and could n't give her the best care . So the family asked Israel for permission to cross the border . Initially , her mother was terrified at the prospect of people considered an enemy in her country handling her wounded daughter . `` ItÂ¹s a strange situation and it 's my first time entering Israel . I was afraid , but they treat me and my daughter in a very nice way , and I understand that medicine has nothing to do with politics , '' al-Aghram said . That 's the philosophy the hospital tries to adhere to -- no matter what . After Israel-Gaza : Who won , who lost ? `` All the tension is blocked outside of the hospital here . There is an island of sanity in the stormy water of the Middle East . Here we actually treat people . We do n't actually look from where they are , what they do and what they did before coming here , and what they are going to do after leaving us , '' said Zeev Rotstein , CEO of Sheba Medical Center . The same doctor is treating the two children of conflict who both lost fingers from rocket blasts . `` It will affect her life from now on , and his life from now on , in choice of profession ... or in choice of future partners for life , everything . And this kind of injury , although it seems minor , it 's affecting the person for life , '' hand surgeon Dr. Batia Yaffe said . Yaffe has worked in this Tel Aviv hospital nearly her entire career . She has treated everyone from soldiers to suicide bombers and the civilians in between . `` I come to think about what is it about this piece of land that everybody is fighting about it all the time . This is what comes to my mind : whether this is our lot for eternity from now on . Always have injuries on both sides , always fighting -- what 's the point ? '' she asks . If there is a point , it is lost on a 4-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl from either side of the Israel-Gaza border who just want to be children , but whose innocence has been interrupted by a war they had nothing to do with . Amid cease-fire , anxiety rules in Israel , Gaza .
Yosef , 4 , and Bisan , 8 , were both injured in Israel-Gaza conflict . Yosef is from Israel ; Bisan is from Gaza . Comment: `` Medicine has nothing to do with politics , '' one mother says .