Sally Becker became known as the Angel of Mostar when she rescued wounded children from besieged areas of war-torn Bosnia. She continued her work throughout the war, bringing convoys of humanitarian aid and evacuating around two hundred sick and wounded children and their families.
When the war spread to Kosovo, she and her volunteers brought many tons of humanitarian aid to the region and in June 1998, Sally crossed the mountains on foot to bring medical supplies to a besieged hospital. She was captured by Serb paramilitaries while attempting to evacuate many wounded children and their families across the mountains. The women and children escaped across the border but Sally was sentenced to thirty days in prison. Upon her release she managed to trace them to a refugee camp in Albania and found many others in need of medical help.
Fifty of the children were offered medical treatment in the United States but while she was arranging visas for those remaining, Sally was shot by masked gunmen. She refused to leave without the children, remaining in the area for several weeks until her mission was completed.
The war ended in 1999 but she continued her work on behalf of victims of war, opening centers for women and children suffering from trauma and helping civilians trapped on the Israel Lebanon border.
Sally has recently been appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador to "Children of Peace", a multi-faith charity dedicated to building friendship, trust and reconciliation between Israeli and Palestinian children.